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n. - An out of the ordinary condition.

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  • Other commuters steal quick glances at the pair, a vignette of abnormalcy to interrupt the routine commute home.
  • But you can usually see reasons for their gender-identity abnormalcy in early environmental influences, either in home or out-of-home influences.
  • And there's really no way for me to say that honestly without admitting that my fear of abnormalcy and my desperate need to be seen as excelling intellectually required...
  • I thought her use of the phrase "pre-crime" to describe the "likely to expose a person or persons to hatred" wording of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act was...
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