banal
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But it also makes the history in which he took such a big part look banal and inhuman: Your historic emergency is his media opportunity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
You’ve got to do the day-to-day banal stuff with your friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
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
It lasted forever, like some weepy and endless made-for-TV movie—all the clinging, all the complaints, all the parking-lot confessions of “inadequacy” and “poor self-image,” all those banal sorrows.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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