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词汇 example_english_ordinary-usage
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ordinary usage

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ordinary
adjective
uk /ˈɔː.dən.əri/ us /ˈɔːr.dən.er.i/
not different or special or unexpected in any ...
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usage
noun
uk /ˈjuː.sɪdʒ/ us /ˈjuː.sɪdʒ/
the way a particular word in a language, or a language in general, ...
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Examples of ordinary usage


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To be sure, it is an extension of ordinaryusage to use 'duty' here, but analytically it is correct.
Following ordinaryusage, when that usage is confused and mistaken, is not a virtue.
First, 'corruption' is here used in a much narrower sense than ordinaryusage.
It is plausible that understanding "probability" as something close to "explanatorily coherent" or "reasonable, based on the evidence" fits ordinaryusage and reasoning better.
But here it is objected that, even if this distinction corresponds to ordinaryusage, it is still very irrational.
In this context, the phrase is infelicitous : ' beyond one's ken ', in its ordinaryusage, means beyond one's powers of comprehension.
Such utterances do occur in ordinaryusage, but they are often characterized by language users as defective in some way.
In ordinaryusage, however, a carpet for the floor is simply a "carpet". ii.
I do not much care if my account of institutional reality and institutional facts matches that ordinaryusage.
The notion admits of epistemic and moral readings, and while ordinaryusage may conflate these, clarifying the distinction is important for any analysis of reasonable expectation.
But if that use of 'harm' is legitimate, then it seems that the sense of 'harm' generated by the objective account may be in line with ordinaryusage after all.
If it is wrong idiomatically or according to ordinaryusage or according to grammar, then does it matter?
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This does not prevent people using whatever names they may find convenient for any of the coins, as a matter of ordinaryusage.
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He defended his opinion by an appeal to common sense and to ordinaryusage among military persons.
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All the evidence put forward, if inadmissible in the ordinaryusage of the term, should be stopped at the point given or expunged from the record.
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Apart from legal and medical technicalities, we believe that it would be accepted as a matter of ordinaryusage that a man should come of age at 21.
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The definition is not, however, all-embracing: the word "includes" is used indicating that the rest of the meaning is to be filled up by ordinaryusage and common sense.
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Sometimes in ordinaryusage, nonsense is synonymous with absurdity or the ridiculous.
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Wikipedia

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Demonstratives may be thought of as forming a subset of indexicals: they are often accompanied, in ordinaryusage, by pointing gestures or other non-verbal expressions of their sense.
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