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run-of-the-mill
adjective
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Examples of run-of-the-mill in a Sentence
just another run-of-the-mill suburb with its shopping malls and fast-food restaurants
his latest offering is rather run-of-the-mill for this usually excellent novelist
Recent Examples on the Web
Senoia Looking for something totally different from Georgia's run-of-the-mill destinations?
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Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 20 May 2024
Companies need ways to entice more people back to the office, and that means making downtown unique, rather than filling spaces with run-of-the-mill restaurants.
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Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024
Purchasing a run-of-the-mill Patek can be a rather onerous process, so being allowed to purchase a rare piece like the Grandmaster Chime is nigh on impossible, even for the super rich.
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Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 May 2024
Brand said even run-of-the-mill, white collar cases he’s been involved in can take years to go to trial.
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USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
What the secular calendar does that your run-of-the-mill perpetual calendar can’t is skip the leap year at the top of each century, which our calendar must do to account for orbital anomalies.
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Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2024
Malicious hacks and ransomware attacks, not to mention run-of-the-mill software failures, are like the weather now: partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of your app crashing or your personal information being circulated on the Dark Web.
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IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2024
There are your run-of-the-mill, garden variety NBA blowouts.
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Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2024
Much of the time, though, run-of-the-mill defenders of animal welfare have ended up with the short straw.
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Christian Schneider, National Review, 28 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1919, in the meaning defined above
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Cite this Entry
“Run-of-the-mill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/run-of-the-mill. Accessed 11 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
run-of-the-mill
adjectiveˌrən-ə(v)-t͟hə-ˈmil
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