Normal and Textbook

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Normal adjective - Being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events.

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Textbook is an antonym for normal.

Nearby Words: normalize, norm, normalise, normally, normality

Textbook adjective - Constituting, serving as, or worthy of being a pattern to be imitated.

Usage example: a textbook example of a film that captures the feel of the novel on which it is based

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Normal is an antonym for textbook.

While normal for Warhammer 40,000, a Space Marine against normal humans is a textbook example of this trope.

Source: Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond
Ignored Epiphany: Not really a textbook example, but in The Winter King Nimue briefly considers throwing magic and the gods aside to live a normal life somewhere and maybe marry Derfel.

Source: Literature / The Warlord Chronicles
At first he sounds normal, but due to textbook Flanderization he has gotten more idiotic sounding, halting and slow.

Source: Vocal Evolution

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