more normal

“Every day that he’s been with us it’s becoming a little more normal. I’ve been there. The first time you play your old team, particularly this close in time duration, it’s going to be weird. But he’ll be OK.”

Now, in more normal times, parents may hope their grown-up children would fly the nest, but many of the 20-somethings would wish they could afford to do so.

We live now not just with the risk of destruction, but also with the possibility that this will be the way going forward — all the extremes becoming all the more normal.

That in turn has contributed to explosive wildfires like the Franklin fire in Malibu, as dangerous winter wind patterns are beginning to occur at a moment when, in a more normal year, the fire season would already have been ended by heavier rain.

Costa added the public were calling for "more normal people" to "represent us, that look like us, that act like us. Well, when you put a mirror up to society, you're going to get all sorts of people."