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US
/ˈtɪpəkəɫ, ˈtɪpɪkəɫ/
]
[ UK /tˈɪpɪkəl/ ]
[ UK /tˈɪpɪkəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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conforming to a type
the typical (or normal) American
typical teenage behavior -
exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category
a typical case of arteritis
a typical romantic poem
a typical American girl
a typical suburban community
the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year
a painting typical of the Impressionist school -
of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing
that is typical of you!
Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor
How To Use typical In A Sentence
- The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country.
- My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.
- Typically, it comes in the wintertime, packing a lot of snow.
- For high-definition video, the umi needs an Internet connection that can send, or upload, data at 1.5 megabits per second, higher than that of typical DSL or cable services. Cisco Launches 'Umi' Telepresence Box To Turn TVs Into Videophones
- It was a typical gesture of love and togetherness. The Sun
- For a typical 3-mm-diameter lens, the dioptric power can be controlled between - 100 and + 50 diopters.
- The composition of displaced terranes ranges from that of typical oceanic crust to significantly less dense granitic rock with clear continental affinities.
- The threatened uniform typically consists of a khaki military tunic with trousers, though in Scottish regiments the trousers are usually tartan or replaced by a kilt.
- But without exception, these big operations use leased land, with tenures typically of two to five years.
- Typically the characters of a masque would be classical deities or abstract qualities such as a Virtue and Beauty, contrasted with rustic figures, and the story would represent an archetypal conflict proceeding to resolution.