{
  "id": "usual.common",
  "term": "usual",
  "sense": "common",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is regular in its occurrence over time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "pattern.regularity",
      "time.dimension",
      "regular.frequency"
    ],
    "interaction": "pattern.regularity and time.dimension together allow regular.frequency to emerge, producing a sense of usual occurrence",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal consistency",
      "predictable recurrence",
      "familiar pattern over time"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station orbits Earth every 90 minutes, maintaining this schedule for over 20 years.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to central Mexico each autumn, a pattern observed for decades.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The New York Stock Exchange opens at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time on weekdays, a schedule kept since 1817.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "regular.frequency",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "appropriate.suitable",
    "cancer.disease",
    "cheap.economic",
    "climate.weather",
    "custom.social",
    "early.temporal",
    "fine.quality",
    "hot.temperature",
    "large.size",
    "late.temporal",
    "main.primary",
    "popular.social",
    "rather.comparative",
    "rating.evaluation",
    "scar.residual",
    "short.length",
    "south.direction",
    "stress.condition",
    "super.intensifier",
    "wide.spatial"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "usual"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added regular.frequency (L1) as a component since the original definition implicitly relied on frequency over time, which neither pattern.regularity nor time.dimension alone provide. Definition tighte"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-usual.common"
}