The road down from the Malakand Pass usually carries little traffic and it seemed normal till 1600.

BBC: Pakistan's 'displaced deluge'

After a while, it seemed so normal to recognize a few famous faces in the crowd, however, that my excitement began to dwindle.

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For a time it seemed things might return to normal.

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His impressions of Castro's home was that it seemed "simple" and "normal, " with nothing out of place beyond the instruments lying around suggesting a musician lived there.

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It seemed on the outside like a normal visit.

NPR: Being the Mother to a Family of Soldiers

It seemed to work, but Sanders had no idea whether the arrangement was normal or bizarre.

NPR: Excerpt: 'When Everything Changed'

It was absurd (as is now obvious) to argue that equities were, in effect, a riskless asset but it was true that equities have been a better bet over the past century than the normal risk premium seemed to imply.

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