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Recent Examples of ordinarily Led by Marcel Malanga's father, Christian Malanga, a Congolese political exile who ordinarily lived in Utah, the group of men attacked the home of a senior Congolese politician on May 19, 2024, before invading Kinshasa's sprawling presidential complex. Npr's International Desk, NPR, 8 Apr. 2025 The dual-class effect: Meta as a case study In a standard single-class structure – where voting power tracks the amount of company equity a shareholder owns – someone seeking total control of a company must ordinarily spend a lot of money buying up shares, which also means assuming a lot of risk. Gregory H. Shill, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2025 The Wilson Center’s president is ordinarily appointed by the board of trustees, but members of the board were fired in recent weeks. Aishvarya Kavi, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025 Antitrust claims ordinarily have a four-year statute of limitations, so class member players would likely include those who competed since 2021, and future ones would go until the date of final judgment in the case. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 18 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ordinarily

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“Ordinarily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ordinarily. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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