mundane

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Investors have lately gone into a frenzy over a mundane piece of electrical equipment that they think will make data centers more efficient.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

The variety of goods is striking, ranging from the ostentatious - Lalique salt and pepper grinders priced at £2,618 - to the mundane, like Loctite super glue costing £3.50.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 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

Dylan Thomas, with his high, ethereal voice and poetry that was, at times, incomprehensible, fulfilled that idea, whereas Hughes, writing about ordinary people and about a very mundane Harlem, did not fulfill that idea.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers