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

“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

The memes often depict people buried under computer monitors, or reframing mundane tasks like watching the news, spying on neighbors and working in an office as monitoring the situation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Dr Stephen Grimes, from the university's school of geography, earth and environment said: "This project will transform mundane rooftops and gutters all around Plymouth into portals to the cosmos."

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

She had made the same trip year after year, but always inattentively because there was someone else to worry about the mundane details while she dreamily watched the landscape out the window.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende