mundane

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Investors have lately gone into a frenzy over a mundane piece of electrical equipment that they think will make data centers more efficient.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

Absurdist comedy, the kind that was Letterman’s, his “Late Night” successor Conan O’Brien’s and Colbert’s specialty, is the very soul of free speech because it pushes honesty and truth past mundane notions of propriety.

From Salon • May 21, 2026

It targets almost every industry and region, demand as well as supply, services as well as goods, the sophisticated and the mundane.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

“When I think of L.A., I think of Ruscha’s work, which has a fascinating sense of the mundane and how it relates to the city’s grandeur,” Anderson wrote in the notes.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Over the life of the fair the hospital treated 11,602 patients, sixty-four a day, for injuries and ailments that suggest that the mundane sufferings of people have not changed very much over the ages.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson