typical case
The usual example
A typical case is a representative example or instance that illustrates the normal or expected pattern: In a typical case, symptoms appear within two weeks.
The phrase often introduces what usually happens before addressing exceptions or complications.
In legal and medical contexts, it establishes baseline expectations against which unusual situations can be measured.
- standardLevel of quality accepted
- normalConforming to standard
- textbook exampleIdeal illustrative instance
- averageArithmetic mean or ordinary
- exampleRepresentative case shown
instance · open and shut · routine · ordinary · common · textbook · usual · bread and butter · baseline · representative · benchmark · default · everyday · nothing special · generic · mainstream · middle of the road · regular
- idealsideal, utopia, archetypes, models, paradise
- perfect examplesparadigm, exemplar, archetype, prototype, gold standard
- generalizationsgeneralization, generalisation, stereotype, blanket statement, oversimplification
- hypotheticalshypothesis, hypothetical, what-if, what if, conjecture
typical caseoutlier
Distant data point
anomaly · exception · edge case · aberration · deviation
typical casefreak occurrence
Highly unusual event
fluke · black swan · curiosity · oddity
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