mundane

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A lifestyle unburned by history and more connected to the mundane and the tangible.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

While Nick Ballou, one of the researchers behind the study, said it was unlikely mundane job simulators would ever be comparable to something like therapy, he believed they still had a couple of "unique benefits".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

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

The severity of seemingly mundane, everyday anxieties — school bullies, the prom, graduation, obnoxious Cher-obsessed college roommates — is on par with demons trying to hasten the apocalypse.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 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