Definitions

p

ADJECTIVE

garden-variety

Synonyms

WEAK

average characterless common commonplace conventional cut-and-dried dull fair familiar formulaic garden generic habitual homespun household humble indifferent inferior mean mediocre modest no great shakes normal

NOUN

habitualness

Synonyms

WEAK

beaten path characteristic consuetude customariness daily grind fashion form grind groove habit habitude hang-up into manner matter of course mode normalcy normality observance ordinariness practice praxis precedent prevalence

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Rajadhyaksha points out there is a “remarkably consistent pattern p st most geopolitical conflicts …of an initial shock…then a grind back as economic fundamentals reassert themselves.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

"It's political with a small p - there's enough that roots us in the real world but the world is too complicated to link it directly and I think it would be inappropriate."

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025

Biden then speaks for several minutes with some of the hundreds of guests and p oses for photos.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2023

It also struggled if two sounds were similar, like /p/ and /b/.

From Science Daily • Nov. 6, 2023

Put the names of shorter works, like poems, stories, and songs, in ordinary type with quotation marks. books: Gone With the Wind magazines: Newsweek n e w s pa p E R s.-

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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