mundane

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The memes often depict people buried under computer monitors, or reframing mundane tasks like watching the news, spying on neighbors and working in an office as monitoring the situation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

A lifestyle unburned by history and more connected to the mundane and the tangible.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

While Nick Ballou, one of the researchers behind the study, said it was unlikely mundane job simulators would ever be comparable to something like therapy, he believed they still had a couple of "unique benefits".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The severity of seemingly mundane, everyday anxieties — school bullies, the prom, graduation, obnoxious Cher-obsessed college roommates — is on par with demons trying to hasten the apocalypse.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

Things which were odd, by Julian’s definition, often turned out to be amusingly mundane.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt