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normal

/ˈnoɹ.məl/ noun C2
  1. A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane. (countable)
  2. A person who is healthy, normal, as opposed to one who is morbid. (countable)
  3. A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles. (countable, slang)
  4. The usual state. (countable, uncountable) · I was quite ill for a while, but latterly seem to have returned to normal.· His workload is now back to normal.

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The room was in its normal state, and in it I passed an instructive quarter of an hour.”
The Valley of Fear, p. 82 · C1
In normal cases one can place a man in his true decade with tolerable confidence.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 50 · B2
I say normal cases, because ill-health and physical weakness reproduce the signs of old age, even when the invalid is a youth.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 50 · B2
Not one of them was a normal human being.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 22 · B2

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