mundane

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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

Some of the crucial work done at Bell Labs might now seem mundane: for example, how to fabricate sheathing so undersea cables wouldn’t be chewed through by Toredo worms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

One of the hardest parts of grief is reckoning with the fact that life doesn’t stop and the most mundane tasks still need doing, even when your internal landscape feels shattered.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026

The laws will make a difference in seemingly mundane ways.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Many mundane mistakes in reasoning can be traced to a shaky grasp of the notion of conditional probability.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos