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The term “regular” is deployed with remarkable flexibility in literature, spanning contexts from the everyday and habitual to the systematic and institutional. It is used to describe organized phenomena such as scheduled military services and standard practices ([1], [2], [3]), as well as to denote patterned or rhythmic biological functions like breathing or heartbeat ([4], [5]). The adjective conveys notions of conformity, reliability, and uniformity in contexts as diverse as employment conditions ([6]), disease patterns ([7]), educational routines ([8], [9]), and even the measured order in mechanical or artistic creations ([10], [11]). In this way, “regular” not only signifies what is normal or customary, but also informs our understanding of structure and discipline in various realms of human activity and natural phenomena ([12], [13]).
  1. Officers of the regular army did not want this service—away off there where neither honor nor distinction was to be gained.
    — from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain
  2. The other professors had their regular classes and recitations.
    — from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman
  3. Indeed, there was but one questionable detail left: the regular train was to follow us as soon as we should start, and it might run over us.
    — from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain
  4. In the warm hollow Lily lay still and her breathing grew low and regular.
    — from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  5. His placid face and regular breathing showed that he was fast asleep.
    — from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
  6. For weeks now his regular employment had filled Herzl with revulsion.
    — from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl
  7. It's a regular disease of asparagus you have got this year: you will make our Parisians sick of it.
    — from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
  8. For a long time I had no regular lessons.
    — from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  9. ‘We go upon the practical mode of teaching, Nickleby; the regular education system.
    — from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
  10. To this are attached a rack and a revolving drum, both fitted with teeth at regular intervals.
    — from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
  11. Deduction requires a system of allied ideas which may be translated into one another by regular or graded steps.
    — from How We Think by John Dewey
  12. Sixth Review, Lessons XLV-LII, §§ 521-523 133 LESSON LIII REGULAR COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES 300.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  13. His habits of mind had the regular swing of a pendulum.
    — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

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