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mundane

[muhn-deyn, muhn-deyn] / mʌnˈdeɪn, ˈmʌn deɪn /


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A mundane piece of electrical equipment could make data centers more efficient, and it’s got investors in a frenzy.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Most presidential check-up reports, though, contain details of mundane ailments: "Doctors removed a precancerous skin lesion from the tip of his nose", reads a New York Times report on Bill Clinton's annual checkup from 1996.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

“When I think of L.A., I think of Ruscha’s work, which has a fascinating sense of the mundane and how it relates to the city’s grandeur,” Anderson wrote in the notes.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

For Wall Street Journal readers, the takeaways from their first jobs range from the mundane to the profound, from small lessons to ones that guided them for decades to come.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Gran twitters on for another five minutes, filling me in on mundane news: Heather has decided she wants to become a librarian.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman




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