garden-variety

Example Sentences

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“If this goes lower, will this feel like a garden variety pullback? Heck no, not with these headlines,” he said.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

This is not another garden variety Latin genre list, but a highlight reel of 2025 releases that showcases artists from Latin America and the diaspora.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

They didn’t really view the battle flag “as insurrectionist or pro-slavery, but more as garden variety rebellion,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2023

Dyson isn’t advertising the Zone as a mitigation tool for the pandemic, rather, it’s supposed to deal with garden variety air pollution—not viruses.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2022

Be it known, there are two varieties of car in Cork: one the common or garden variety, the outside car, and the other a sort of anti-type called an inside car.

From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert