mundane

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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

"I was able to figure out or learn a lot of things about myself in the mundane of the everyday, like not having a schedule, planning my own time, setting goals," said the medical student.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

“There is a whole set of mundane AI use cases that we can keep ourselves busy for the next two, three years just getting those done,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

But to be confronted with the prejudice so blatantly, there in that temple to intellectual excellence and rational thought, by something so mundane, so ridiculous, so universal as having to go to the bathroom...

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly