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

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 entries would juxtapose the mundane thrill and confusion of being a young girl with the terror of living with Danny.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel