humdrum
Example Sentences
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The proposed plant is slated to cost roughly $275 million, create 400 jobs and produce humdrum yet important equipment: grid-battery systems and devices called inverters that connect solar farms to the power network.
As locals grapple with the idea of U.S. domination, they are also dealing with more humdrum problems.
Locals here have more humdrum problems to attend to: a slowing economy as investment falls after several big infrastructure projects were completed, labor shortages and rising prices.
Certainly the humdrum of legislation or bureaucratic rule-marking is nothing like the gossipy speculation about who may or may not bid to lead California as its 41st governor.
From Los Angeles Times
Private-market managers like humdrum annuities: long-term insurance policies popular with retirees because they offer a regular stream of payments.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
