mundane

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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

Most presidential check-up reports, though, contain details of mundane ailments: "Doctors removed a precancerous skin lesion from the tip of his nose", reads a New York Times report on Bill Clinton's annual checkup from 1996.

From BBC • May 30, 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

What seems like a mundane to-do item while the account holder is alive later becomes a major headache for would-be heirs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

On the mundane, factual level, though, this resonant tale is wrong: Nature has always used fire as a mallet to beat landscapes into other forms.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann