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banal

[buh-nal, -nahl, bayn-l] / bəˈnæl, -ˈnɑl, ˈbeɪn l /


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The story of Chud’s origin begins with a banal road-rage incident in February of 2024.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

You’ve got to do the day-to-day banal stuff with your friends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Golaszewski explains it's not intentional and he's showing that "the truth of grief is that it is banal".

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026

And it makes a seemingly banal title wryly funny: Ms. Andrade, a top competitive surfer, stands a little over 5 feet tall; the waves where she surfs at Nazaré, Portugal, can top 80 feet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

As I exchanged banal congratulations with the climbers filing past, inwardly I was frantic: “Hurry it up, hurry it up!”

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer




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