banal
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Kyle Chayka, a journalist at The New Yorker focused on technology, says AI writing is now widely considered to be "generic, obsequious and banal".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
“I’m a citizen of the world, a citizen of humanity,” he says in response to a banal question about where he shot “Digger.”
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
You’ve got to do the day-to-day banal stuff with your friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 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
Disappointingly, it turned out to be some banal utterances about dying and cutting cloth.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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