prosaic
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The animal, known officially by the more prosaic name Bear 89, was nicknamed Backpack by rangers who noted his habit of climbing on his mother's back when she swam across the river.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
But there are other, more prosaic, unintended consequences to consider too.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
“Even the most powerful technologies must pass through the prosaic discipline of cost curves, capacity constraints and marginal returns,” the report said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
A coed Filipino version was made in 1975, and a prosaic Americanized take in 1990.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
She fed it with fantasies, idealized it, savagely defended it, stripped it of its prosaic truth, and turned it into the kind of love one found in novels.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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