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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

Gustav von Aschenbach might be a literary light of early 20th-century Munich, but that doesn’t preclude him from wanting a break from workaday life.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 4, 2026

After wrestling with those weighty questions, he posed a more workaday one: “What’s gonna be the gas price tomorrow?”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 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

The celebration continued late into the cool August night and trickled into the following day, as the Goble and Kane clans tarried to savor their last moments together before heading back to their workaday lives.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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