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banal

[buh-nal, -nahl, beyn-l] / bəˈnæl, -ˈnɑl, ˈbeɪn l /


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In evolutionary time, several decades separate these bat viruses—dubbed BANAL, because researchers found them in bat anal swabs—from SARS-CoV-2, so the new viruses could not have sparked the pandemic.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 29, 2021

Why should we wish to change from anything so free and delightful and poetical as lovers into anything so fettered, and commonplace, and prosaic, and BANAL, as wives and husbands?

From Philistia by Allen, Grant

HIS father was a general in the Indian army—nothing could be more BANAL.

From Philistia by Allen, Grant




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