garden-variety
adjective
gar·den-va·ri·e·ty
ˈgär-dᵊn-və-ˈrī-ə-tē 
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Examples of garden-variety in a Sentence
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Called pre-existing condition insurance plans, the insurance resembled a garden-variety Blue Cross plan, and the premium was the same premium a healthy person would pay for such insurance.
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John C. Goodman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
But garden-variety licensing and royalty revenues, not AI, were what was actually behind Arm’s big earnings release.
—Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
To call this fanciful is almost an insult to more garden-variety political fantasies.
—The Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
But Andy believes that Supreme Court doesn’t like to bunch together your garden-variety financial fraudsters with the political kinds.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 4 Dec. 2023
This outbreak is different from garden-variety respiratory illness, experts say, because of the number of cases that are leading to pneumonia.
—Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2023
Rife’s is a garden-variety strain of American contempt: cheap, lazy and sure to find broad agreement.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 Nov. 2023
Over the past few weeks, prosecutors have cast the case as a garden-variety fraud investigation.
—J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
What are American metropolises if not hotbeds for garden-variety burglars and loons?
—Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
John C. Goodman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
But garden-variety licensing and royalty revenues, not AI, were what was actually behind Arm’s big earnings release.
—Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
To call this fanciful is almost an insult to more garden-variety political fantasies.
—The Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
But Andy believes that Supreme Court doesn’t like to bunch together your garden-variety financial fraudsters with the political kinds.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 4 Dec. 2023
This outbreak is different from garden-variety respiratory illness, experts say, because of the number of cases that are leading to pneumonia.
—Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2023
Rife’s is a garden-variety strain of American contempt: cheap, lazy and sure to find broad agreement.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 Nov. 2023
Over the past few weeks, prosecutors have cast the case as a garden-variety fraud investigation.
—J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
What are American metropolises if not hotbeds for garden-variety burglars and loons?
—Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
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First Known Use
1928, in the meaning defined above
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garden-variety
adjective
: ordinary entry 2 sense 2, commonplace
not the flu, just a garden-variety cold
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