typical
adjective
typ·i·cal
ˈti-pi-kəl 
1
a
: combining or exhibiting the essential characteristics of a group
typical suburban houses
b
: conforming to a type
a specimen typical of the species
2
: constituting or having the nature of a type : symbolic
Examples of typical in a Sentence
It was his typical response.
It was a typical Saturday night for us.
We wanted him to have the typical college experience of living on campus.
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While that dealer’s price is more in line with typical used car depreciation, the Foundation series was at one time selling at wildly inflated prices on the used market due to high demand.
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Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
The five plaintiffs are asking a Superior Court judge to render the city’s advancement of the typical $47.59-per-month trash fee null and void.
—Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025
The accompanying video – well, better classified as all-encompassing graphics that sucked you into the visual vortex – of football fields and basketball courts pulled at the hearts of 17,000 people as Chesney sang of days gone by with his typical earnestness.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 26 May 2025
In August, 1939, the British physiologist Alan Hodgkin and his student Andrew Huxley (Aldous’s half brother) examined squid giant axons, which are up to a thousand times thicker than typical human nerve fibres and thus easier to study.
—Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
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Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
The five plaintiffs are asking a Superior Court judge to render the city’s advancement of the typical $47.59-per-month trash fee null and void.
—Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025
The accompanying video – well, better classified as all-encompassing graphics that sucked you into the visual vortex – of football fields and basketball courts pulled at the hearts of 17,000 people as Chesney sang of days gone by with his typical earnestness.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 26 May 2025
In August, 1939, the British physiologist Alan Hodgkin and his student Andrew Huxley (Aldous’s half brother) examined squid giant axons, which are up to a thousand times thicker than typical human nerve fibres and thus easier to study.
—Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
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“Typical.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/typical. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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typical
adjective
typ·i·cal
ˈtip-i-kəl
: combining or showing the special characteristics of a group or kind
a typical school lunch
typically
adverb
-k(ə-)lē
Medical Definition
typical
adjective
typ·i·cal
ˈtip-i-kəl
: conforming to a type
a typical specimen
typical symptoms of a disease
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