mundane

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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

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 mundane will be explored in a multimedia collaboration with Salonen and director/disrupter Yuval Sharon, a former L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Holding on to my hate for the Khmer Rouge also allows me to go on living the mundane details of life.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung