garden-variety
adjective
gar·den-va·ri·e·ty
ˈgär-dᵊn-və-ˈrī-ə-tē 
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
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Some point to the usual suspects — the Illuminati, Bohemian Grove, garden-variety Satanists.
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Lane Brown, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
Teddy’s reasoning is a confusion of save-the-world alarmism, garden-variety derangement, unhealed trauma, and single-minded revenge.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
But Tatum is more than just your garden-variety charmer.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Faced with garden-variety brutal minutes rather than some of the toughest on record, Seider took a major step forward.
—The Athletic Nhl, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
Robert Redford was not your garden-variety celebrity.
—Peter Biskind, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
Its capabilities and autonomy present a potent enterprise threat vector beyond the realm of garden-variety security concerns.
—Pieter Danhieux, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
There are generic, garden-variety villains like Mole Man (Paul Walter Hauser), who the Four easily defeat while being the darlings of their community and the world.
—Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2025
In a career spanning six decades, Weir was key to developing the Grateful Dead from garden-variety psychedelic rockers as the Warlocks to godfathers of the jam band genre.
—Morgan Enos, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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Lane Brown, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
Teddy’s reasoning is a confusion of save-the-world alarmism, garden-variety derangement, unhealed trauma, and single-minded revenge.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
But Tatum is more than just your garden-variety charmer.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Faced with garden-variety brutal minutes rather than some of the toughest on record, Seider took a major step forward.
—The Athletic Nhl, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
Robert Redford was not your garden-variety celebrity.
—Peter Biskind, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
Its capabilities and autonomy present a potent enterprise threat vector beyond the realm of garden-variety security concerns.
—Pieter Danhieux, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
There are generic, garden-variety villains like Mole Man (Paul Walter Hauser), who the Four easily defeat while being the darlings of their community and the world.
—Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2025
In a career spanning six decades, Weir was key to developing the Grateful Dead from garden-variety psychedelic rockers as the Warlocks to godfathers of the jam band genre.
—Morgan Enos, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Garden-variety.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garden-variety. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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