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
He continues, during these early months in office, to focus on a garden variety of municipal issues: housing, traffic, making local government more accessible and responsive.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 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
That means that a single federal fraud statute prohibits the most diabolical schemes along with the garden variety cons.
From Slate • Oct. 16, 2023
He shook out the roll and discovered the common or garden variety of cotton nightshirt, size fifty.
From The Rider of Golden Bar by White, William Patterson
