mundane
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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
L.A. people get that the mundane is the destination because our version of mundane is anything but.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
The idea is that even the most mundane of things can be maxxed, whether that’s sleep, scent, status — even a particular country, namely China.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
Until this past fall, Festus council meetings often revolved around such mundane matters as approving liquor licenses or the Christmas parade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
But to be confronted with the prejudice so blatantly, there in that temple to intellectual excellence and rational thought, by something so mundane, so ridiculous, so universal as having to go to the bathroom...
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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