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garden-variety
adjective
gar·den-va·ri·e·ty
ˈgär-dᵊn-və-ˈrī-ə-tē
Synonyms
Examples of garden-variety in a Sentence
the once-powerful hurricane eventually abated into just a garden-variety tropical storm
the bakery's extravagant creations are not your garden-variety wedding cakes
Recent Examples on the Web
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.
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Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
To call this fanciful is almost an insult to more garden-variety political fantasies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 Nov. 2023
Over the past few weeks, prosecutors have cast the case as a garden-variety fraud investigation.
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J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
What are American metropolises if not hotbeds for garden-variety burglars and loons?
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Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1928, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near garden-variety
Cite this Entry
“Garden-variety.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garden-variety. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
garden-variety
adjective
: ordinary entry 2 sense 2, commonplace
not the flu, just a garden-variety cold
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