mundane

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Some of the crucial work done at Bell Labs might now seem mundane: for example, how to fabricate sheathing so undersea cables wouldn’t be chewed through by Toredo worms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

One of the hardest parts of grief is reckoning with the fact that life doesn’t stop and the most mundane tasks still need doing, even when your internal landscape feels shattered.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026

The laws will make a difference in seemingly mundane ways.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

"You will never feel happy or satisfied in life if you are always chasing something. It is up to you if you see the magic in the mundane," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

But the more mundane truth is that they never faced and therefore never fully resolved all their political differences; they simply outlived them.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis