workaday
Example Sentences
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Boring as it may seem, most Californians want someone who’ll focus on their workaday concerns, not jollification.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026
But as chipmakers prioritise the lucrative AI industry, they are producing fewer of the more workaday chips used in everyday consumer electronics like phones and laptops, pushing up device prices.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
Mr. McGuane’s hapless heroes are local politicians, insurance salesmen, small-town lawyers and other workaday hustlers intent on “getting somewhere among people going nowhere.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
This fundamentally misunderstands the appeal of conspiracies, though, which is that it’s more fun and exciting to believe in them instead of in workaday truths.
From Slate • May 24, 2025
Not the routine, not just the fitting together of things that no one had guessed at fitting, not the making of connections; these are merely the workaday details, the methods of operating.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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