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workaday

[wur-kuh-dey] / ˈwɜr kəˌdeɪ /














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But as chipmakers prioritise the lucrative AI industry, they are producing fewer of the more workaday chips used in everyday consumer electronics like phones and laptops, pushing up device prices.

From Barron's Apr. 22, 2026

That an Oscar-nominated director with a celebrated eye for the ethereal, strange world of girl-women living in beautiful boxes could make a film as workaday as this one is frustrating.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 2026

His inspiration was not any architectural theory or school so much as the workaday landscape of Southern California itself, the brash free-for-all he had noticed as soon as he arrived in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2025

This fundamentally misunderstands the appeal of conspiracies, though, which is that it’s more fun and exciting to believe in them instead of in workaday truths.

From Slate May 24, 2025

She had also found time to wash and mend my workaday clothing, and patch my tom shoe.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood




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