Routine
Routine adjective - Being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events.
Usage example: this is just a routine inspection
Nearby Word: routinely
Strange
Strange adjective - Different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion.
Usage example: the strange smell we'd noticed turned out, unhappily, to be from the dinner our host was making
Both words in one sentence
- Pedophile Humbert does his Overprotective Dad routine when he sees Dolores talking to a strange man.
Source: Hypocritical Humor / Film -
One day while doing a routine patrol around her small village, she comes across a strange sleeping man with weird brown shards for ears.
Source: Visual Novel / Autumn's Journey -
Parodied in Babylon 5 when Ivanova gets out of having sex with an alien by convincing him that a strange dance routine is how humans do it.
Source: Mating Dance
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