banal
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There’s something covertly chilling about taking some relatively banal aspect of real life and pushing it to its most extreme lengths — and there’s also so much that could go wrong trying.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 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
The short video posts on platforms like TikTok show how even just the words "Tokyo, Japan" with a cherry blossom emoji can make an otherwise banal street scene more appealing for some users.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
Effie makes me say a hundred banal phrases starting with a smile, while smiling, or ending with a smile.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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