garden-variety

Example Sentences

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The index’s drawdown isn’t even close to a garden variety “correction,” or a 10% or greater drop.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

This is not another garden variety Latin genre list, but a highlight reel of 2025 releases that showcases artists from Latin America and the diaspora.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

In other words, it was never intended to be nor has it ever been used as a power to deport people without due process for garden variety criminal activity — or no crime at all.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2025

They didn’t really view the battle flag “as insurrectionist or pro-slavery, but more as garden variety rebellion,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2023

It comes into use nearly ten days in advance of the Early Cluster, and is the earliest garden variety now cultivated.

From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Burr, Fearing