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typical

If something is typical, it is normal, and not special. It's what you would expect. This rain isn't typical. We almost never get rain at this time of year. These problems are just another typical example of how politicians only care about themselves.

typical

exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category a typical American girl a typical suburban community the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year a painting typical of the Impressionist school a typical romantic poem a typical case of arteritis (= distinctive) of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor — Curtis Wilkie that is typical of you! conforming to a type the typical (or normal) American typical teenage behavior

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Simple sentences

They are typical young people.
That is just typical of him.
As wars and murders show, bestiality is a typical feature of the human race.
But it's a typical savannah country, and we enjoy cooler temperatures.
It is a typical Gothic church.
The typical middle-class American baby comes home from the hospital to sleep in his own bed in his own room.
It was typical of him to arrive late.
He's a typical workaholic.
He is a typical Japanese.
A typical example of a field is provided by the real numbers.
This politician is a typical champagne socialist.
There's a lot of noise in a typical city.
You can search words, and get translations. But it's not exactly a typical dictionary.
The typical Japanese person doesn't speak English.
Tatoeba users can be divided into four ideal-typical groups: readers, authors, translators and proofreaders.
He's a typical Japanese man.
Tom is a typical Canadian.
He spoke with a typical Texan drawl.
Like a typical vertebrate the human has two pairs of limbs.
This is very typical for you.
It's so typical.
He has a typical Scottish accent.
A typical Bavarian breakfast consists of white sausage, wheat beer and pretzels.

Movie subtitles

And here, the abnormal brain of the typical criminal.
A typical interior.
That's typical of your daughter.
It's one of those typical cases where one has to take a chance.
It's typical of American womanhood.
Morbus Chengi is a disease typical of advanced age.
It was typical of the man that one leg being frozen and there being no doctors here, he amputated the leg himself.
For my own information. would you call your approach toward me typical of the local morale?
How tiresome of him not to be here when we arrive, and how typical!
It was a typical King Cutler job.
Typical blasphemy!
Your misinformation, Murdoch, is typical.
Well, he said he wanted a typical American family.
I told him we weren't a typical American family.
That's typical of your Saint-Simonian friends.
So typical of you humans.
Hardly what I'd call innocent. but typical of Hollis Bane and everything that his newspaper stands for.
Typical womanhood.
It's a typical crank letter.
Typical Irish logic, totally unconnected.
Not after seeing you. You're even more typical than I dared hope.
We need a new face, clean, typical American.
Scott and Allison's relationship is, I would say, pretty typical to any other teenager's relationship, certainly to ones that I've had in the past.
Your Majesty and I are the most typical type.
How tiresome of him not to be here when we arrive, and how typical.
I'd like to see what your room looks like. Typical girl, typical room.
Typical of you to ask. My uncle's resting.
That's typical Hamburg crap weather. and it won't get any better today.
You have all the earmarks of a typical bachelor.

News and current affairs

This work is based on standard scenarios, and carries the typical caveats of predictions far into the future.
The typical business cycle has a natural cushioning mechanism that wards off unexpected blows.
But many ideological hawks are secular nationalists, and their jargon is similar to that of typical Central and Eastern European nationalists.
For many species of coral, this bleaching threshold is usually only a couple of degrees centigrade above the typical maximum temperature for a given location.
The typical American employer is no longer General Motors.
The average high-debt episodes since 1800 last 23 years and are associated with a growth rate more than one percentage point below the rate typical for periods of lower debt levels.
Automatic enrollment creates a saving plan that is sensible for the typical person.
Unstable coalition governments have been typical of Italy's postwar politics.
Bolivia is not a typical Latin American country by any definition.
Accountability in the EU has, instead, been achieved through methods that are typical of bureaucratic control, not of politics.
Europe would need to have political institutions more typical of a federation than of a confederation of states.
Without democratic reform there will be no end to this cycle, for violence is the typical expression of people without free speech.
Typical of China, state-owned media that carried the original story instantly retracted their reports to parrot the party line.
The arrests in Ghana, while typical of African bigotry towards gays, were all the more shocking because gays and lesbians actually thrive in Ghana's capital, Accra.
But there is nothing typical about the pressures that are likely to continue squeezing American families long after November 6.
Any adult who was alive in the US during these three decades realizes that this number grossly understates the gains of the typical household.
In typical business cycles, countries are usually left to manage the recovery largely on their own.
A typical bank exam would include scrutiny of every single business loan and a large proportion of consumer loans.
A typical Western-style house in Kampala or Accra, for example, now costs an astonishing two to three times the price of a comparable home in, say, Cleveland or other cities in the American heartland.
If the only economics course you take is the typical introductory survey, or if you are a journalist asking an economist for a quick opinion on a policy issue, that is indeed what you will encounter.

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