banality
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Once youth sports returned, I clung to the routine and banality that came with it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 25, 2025
Or, was "SNL" presenting queerness with the same banality as we’ve come to see straightness, albeit with the use of a somewhat dehumanizing pun?
From Salon • Feb. 17, 2025
And so we’re back to the whole lesson that we never seem to learn about how the banality of evil is real.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2024
In Jeremy Saulnier’s “Rebel Ridge,” a “Rambo”-inspired riff on racial profiling and the insidious banality of evil baked into American policing, the filmmaker demonstrates his mastery of the taut action thriller.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024
He is unaccustomed to the banality of domestic flights, the narrow cabin, the single bag he’s packed, small enough to stow overhead.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vocabulary lists containing banality
The Namesake
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Prairie Lotus
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