mundane

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At first glance, much of the material appears crushingly mundane: appointments, disputes, military movements, gifts, illnesses and endless administrative minutiae.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026

Her awareness of this ever-present risk lends the book its gravity; her description of lifeguarding as a job “both mundane and extraordinary” is apt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026

Investors have lately gone into a frenzy over a mundane piece of electrical equipment that they think will make data centers more efficient.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

Absurdist comedy, the kind that was Letterman’s, his “Late Night” successor Conan O’Brien’s and Colbert’s specialty, is the very soul of free speech because it pushes honesty and truth past mundane notions of propriety.

From Salon • May 21, 2026

Sarai cracked first, tipping into helpless laughter, and Feral followed, and mirth worked its mundane magic, leaching the tension from Sarai’s spine and relieving the cold dread that had been pressing on her all evening.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor