normally

normally
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1) ADV: ADV with v, ADV with cl/group If you say that something normally happens or that you normally do a particular thing, you mean that it is what usually happens or what you usually do.

All airports in the country are working normally today...

Social progress is normally a matter of struggles and conflicts...

Normally, the transportation system in Paris carries 950,000 passengers a day.

2) ADV: ADV after v If you do something normally, you do it in the usual or conventional way.

She would apparently eat normally and then make herself sick.

...failure of the blood to clot normally.


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