prosaic
Example Sentences
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Come, now, let us be reasonable: What’s wrong with “Admin User”? Prosaic, but there’s nothing wrong with prosaic handles in a work chat.
From Slate • Aug. 4, 2020
Prosaic choices, like whether to send a child on a play date, or whether to meet a potential suitor, have become matters of life and death.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2020
Prosaic indeed, and much of it, one hopes, impossible campaign bluster.
From The Guardian • Nov. 12, 2016
Prosaic beginnings for what are now much more ambitious ends.
From Scientific American • Jun. 1, 2012
Prosaic though it may appear, the fact remains that the strain and anguish of parting, even from those we love best on earth, can be mitigated by such material things as food and drink.
From The Moon out of Reach by Pedler, Margaret
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