mediocrity

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Recent Examples of mediocrity One month ago, they were resigned to another season of mediocrity. Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025 This is not diligence—it's synchronized swimming toward mediocrity. Benjamin D. Summers, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 What happened between the Raiders getting clobbered and hitting cruise control is what allows middling teams like them — and the Patriots — to ascend mediocrity. Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 9 Sep. 2025 One can only take so many years of mediocrity, even for a city and fan base that's given them everything. Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mediocrity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mediocrity
Noun
  • Strength in this area transcends all career levels and separates excellence from normality.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Omar’s office is characterized by pristine normality — with its glass walls and desktop computers, its phones and its headsets.
    Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • My memoir was built of gaps, juxtaposition, weird little nothings.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Dec. 2024
  • But nothings more peaceful than tomorrow to a man going through pain today.
    Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Mendoza rose out of recruiting obscurity.
    Antonio Morales, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Their relative obscurity may have also been an advantage.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • However, political observers and those on the right know that Kirk, as founder of Turning Point USA, was at heart an activist who transformed conservative youth politics through his robust organizing network and, in the process, changed the social acceptability of Trumpism among America's youth.
    Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • From my perspective, the real measure of acceptability isn't whether AI assisted in the process, but whether the final output demonstrates sound reasoning, originality and accuracy.
    Morey Haber, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Experts at Sweetbriar said the effort was not just about saving one insect but also about raising awareness.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Designed to be displayed as objets d’art or worn on the body, the 28-piece high jewelry collection ranged in color from transparent to pitch black, using state-of-the-art techniques like 3D printing to achieve lifelike renderings of plants and insects.
    Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Everything Wendy does this week just looks cool, thanks in part to her impressive calm and sense of purpose, and thanks even more to the way she’s framed: often from a low angle, at the center of the composition, surrounded by her minions.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Rapidly spreading its toxic influence across the lands, Magatsu and its minions are a world-ending threat, and the early tutorial bit sees players square up against the baddie only to ultimately lose.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Theresa is easy not to notice in everyday life, and Keaton tapped into that ordinariness, along with the wanderlust that gripped so many discontented antiheroes of the 1970s.
    Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
  • There is something about that ordinariness that is extraordinary.
    Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • More importantly, the narrative explores both sides of the conflict from the POV of grunts and 'nobodies' trying to navigate the post-Civil War state of the galaxy before the fighting stops.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • None of these nobodies is performing like Grimes just yet, and until someone does Grier better get active trying to find a handful of veteran cornerbacks whom this team can call on, and sign to patch up the weakest unit on the team.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025

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“Mediocrity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mediocrity. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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