Recent Examples on the WebWhat 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.—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.—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2024 There are your run-of-the-mill, garden variety NBA blowouts.—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.—Christian Schneider, National Review, 28 Mar. 2024 Dark Matter could seem like run-of-the-mill prestige TV—adapted from a bestselling book (by Blake Crouch), noir-ish in look and tone—except its cut-above cast raises the stakes.—Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024 Its sound design is cacophonous, emphasizing every footstep, breath and gunshot to a disorienting degree, despite being rooted in the POV of characters whose hearing, and whose relationship to atmospheric sound, is ostensibly run-of-the-mill.—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024 Buying a bottle of premade sauce, dumping it in a pan with a few other run-of-the-mill ingredients, and calling it a day is the easiest and most cost-effective way to solve all of the above.—Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 13 Mar. 2024 There’s a difference, of course, between the kind of fame experienced by members of the royal family and run-of-the-mill celebrity fame or political notoriety.—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
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