mundane
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My husband and I burst out laughing – not at that scene, or the clerk’s impromptu theatrics, but at this injection of delight into an otherwise mundane errand.
From Salon • May 2, 2026
It’s a charming little book rooted in a mundane bureaucratic task.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
“Mythos was trained on fairly mundane capacity, and a fairly mundane amount of it. By an extraordinary company,” replied Huang.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
Both fall under the category of "mundane job simulations", an ever-growing gaming genre in which people carry out routine and - on the face of it - not very exciting tasks.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
“The Inner Eye,” said Professor Trelawney with dignity, straightening her shawls and many strands of glittering beads, “was fixed upon matters well outside the mundane realms of whooping voices.”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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