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How to use the word normal in a Sentence?

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I don't like the word 'normal', but I'm ready to have something normal for her.

Shayla Sulack

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She’s missed so many things – she wants to go to a Dodgers game, and Daddy has taken her brother and sister and she sat on the couch and watched it on TV and tried to see if she could see them, i don’t like the word ‘normal’, but I’m ready to have something normal for her.

Shayla Sulack

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today, our view of genuine reality is increasingly clouded by professionals whose technical expertise often introduces a superficial and soulless model of the person that denies moral significance. Perhaps the most devastating example for human values is the process of medicalization through which ordinary unhappiness and normal bereavement have been transformed into clinical depression, existential angst turned into anxiety disorders, and the moral consequences of political violence recast as post-traumatic stress disorder. That is, suffering is redefined as mental illness and treated by professional experts, typically with medication. I believe that this diminishes the person,

Arthur Kleinman

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1 year ago

I think it’s important to convey that seasonal forecasts in April always have lots of uncertainty, but this one has even more uncertainty than normal given the potential combination of a robust El Niño but also a very warm tropical Atlantic.

Phil Klotzbach

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So many people say to themselves, ‘It’s just me. I’ve got a problem.’ But actually, HSDD may be how your brain is wired, the biology is telling us there’s increased activation of inhibitory areas in the brain — the same areas that tell us it’s not OK to walk around in public naked — and those areas are switching off sexual desire. How can we tackle that? We give a hormone that would naturally give you increased sexual desire, essentially hijacking the normal system.

Waljit Dhillo

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1 year ago

I just don’t remember anything after that, i was completely normal, and all of a sudden they put me in this psych ward.

Helen Maroulis

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1 year ago

It felt like there was a period of time when I just wasn’t really identified with anything, like I didn’t know who I was, i just had such a struggle [with] being normal. It was way bigger than sport. It was just like: oh my gosh, I just … want to be normal again.

Helen Maroulis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He’s almost daring the judge, ultimately though, as much as the threats and other rhetoric in my view are far over the line, I think that the judge is unlikely to impose a gag order, given the normal First Amendment concerns multiplied by Donald Trump’s ongoing candidacy.

Elie Honig

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[The Fed is] right to be confident that one of the things that’s going to have to happen to get inflation back down to a normal, stable level is to get job growth to a normal, sustainable level, but if the Fed’s actions resulted in a slower labor market, then inflation stayed high — that would be a disaster.

Wendy Edelberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our team has reverse engineered that code and we can confirm that it tries to escalate rights, tries to gain access to things normal apps wouldn’t be able to do on Android phones.

Mikko Hyppönen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The government, on average, makes millions of payments each day, and our systems are built to pay all of our bills on time and not to pick and choose which bills to pay, it would be an exceptionally risky, untested and radical departure from normal payment practices of agencies across the federal government.

Janet Yellen

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1 year ago

The Fed buys and sells government securities each day to maintain the range of its policy rate — the federal funds rate — between 4.5% and 4.75%, they do this each day and it is normal for the central bank to inject and withdraw liquidity from the market to achieve their policy objectives.

Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She ’ll never be a ‘ normal VP, ’ my goodness, she’s the first African American VP. She’s the first Asian American VP. This is the first female VP, having to be normal. How can it be normal ? It’s never going to be normal.

South Carolina

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1 year ago

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. . .they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.

Aldous Huxley

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1 year ago

Bucha is not normal. Mariupol is not normal. Irpin is not normal. Bombing schools and hospitals and apartment buildings to rubble is not normal. Stealing Ukrainian children from their families and giving them to people in Russia is not normal, we must not let President Putin’s callous indifference to human life become our own.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As nice as it feels to have temperatures in the 70s and 80s this time of year, the fact that it’s not ‘normal’ can have a profound impact on the ecosystem, even a typical spring freeze can damage commercial and back-yard fruit crops that have been pushed into blooming by late-winter warmth.

Brad Rippey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s a huge part for any normal human being in any situation in the workplace, [being] somebody that a lot of teammates and people want here is very important, to me, I value that a lot. Russell Westbrook struggled with the Lakers but improved after moving to a bench role. Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE/Getty Images.

Russell Westbrook

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So though the national average looks pretty normal to us in comparison to pre-pandemic prices, for a lot of travelers a route that they may have taken for years and years to a smaller, more regional airport – that might be two or three times more expensive than what they paid pre-pandemic.

Hayley Berg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have decided that we will return to campus, both in terms of the classroom setting as well as the regular work, come tomorrow, i’d like to emphasize that no one thinks that we’re coming back to a normal week. In fact, this semester is not going to be normal.

Academic Affairs Thomas Jeitschko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People’s lives are returning to normal, and the viral wave comes to an end, so that kind of uncertainty (about the outbreak) is no longer there, and there is a need to reconcile the contradictory narrative, the credibility crisis that the abrupt policy U-turn created, this is the perfect time to say that the outcome justified the decision.

Yanzhong Huang

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1 year ago

We’re accustomed to droughts here. In a normal drought year, we can still supply 80 % of the product to our customers.

Steven Sutter

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1 year ago

In 2022, it was half of the normal planting, at 250,000 acres.

Tim Johnson

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1 year ago

There will never be a return to normal. This event has changed what that will feel like for us forever. But that’s okay, if there’s one thing I know and love about Spartans is that in times of need we come together.

Jo Kovach

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was a normal day in Bakhmut.

Simon Johnsen Johnsen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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