Sentence examples for in ordinary usage from inspiring English sources

Curved mirrors in ordinary usage have surfaces that are spherical, cylindrical, paraboloidal, ellipsoidal, and hyperboloidal.

Whereas a metonym is a substitution, but a substitution by something already adjacent adjacent in ordinary usage, in culture as when one says "the office" for the collection of people who work there.

But in ordinary usage, as well as the usage of most philosophers of art, the work of art is identified with the physical artifact, as it exists in the physical medium.

In ordinary usage, the abstract noun 'happiness' often invites a well-being reading.

They claim that these grounds have a basis in ordinary usage (Hart & Honoré) or in the metaphysics of causation (Moore).

However, the loss of life account is thoroughly established in ordinary usage, and is easily reconciled with the possibility of suspended animation.

There will be philosophically significant consequences if the Commonplace Thesis is incorrect, and if ordinary usage is misleading.

And in its ordinary usage, "information" is a hard word to get a handle on (even after a recent revision, the Oxford English Dictionary still makes a hash of its history).

Our concepts, after all, have been developed to deal with the sorts of contingencies that normally arise, and it may sometimes be possible to invent scenarios (or even to discover them empirically) that are not provided for in our ordinary usage of a concept.

"An officer who gives an order to torture or kill is an 'individual' in that word's ordinary usage; an organization is not," she wrote.

Justice Kagan used reasoning similar to that in last week's decision in Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T, which looked to ordinary usage to interpret the phrase "personal privacy" in a different FOIA exemption.