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as in everyday
having to do with the practical details of regular life
they didn't want to be bothered with mundane concerns like doing the dishes while on vacation
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as in temporal
having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven
a period for reflection and penitence, when spiritual concerns should take precedence over those that are mundane
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Recent Examples of mundane
Across the country, raucous protests at ICE facilities, aggressive tactics by masked agents in the field and heated political rhetoric on both sides have become a dangerous new backdrop to what for years had been the quiet, mundane work of immigration enforcement.
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Rick Jervis, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
His other goal in his preceding 24 appearances — stabbed in from close range from a corner in another 6-0 Carabao Cup win, this time at Oxford United in round two — was mundane by comparison.
—Andy Naylor, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
The reason, according to people familiar with the situation, is more mundane—the Yankees play at home on Wednesday, and though MLS schedule-makers knew that in advance, this was the best date to have Inter Miami travel to play NYCFC.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Big companies invest in big changes but are often slow to notice the mundane, systemic inefficiencies a curious outsider can quickly map.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
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Rick Jervis, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
His other goal in his preceding 24 appearances — stabbed in from close range from a corner in another 6-0 Carabao Cup win, this time at Oxford United in round two — was mundane by comparison.
—Andy Naylor, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
The reason, according to people familiar with the situation, is more mundane—the Yankees play at home on Wednesday, and though MLS schedule-makers knew that in advance, this was the best date to have Inter Miami travel to play NYCFC.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Big companies invest in big changes but are often slow to notice the mundane, systemic inefficiencies a curious outsider can quickly map.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mundane
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The innovation is part of a growing effort to merge menstrual care with wearable health technology, turning everyday products into tools for early disease detection and better reproductive health monitoring.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Oct. 2025
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Keep everyday items out of sight with cabinets, drawers, and more—all on sale now.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Oct. 2025
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This temporal displacement frees Pynchon to offer sidelong commentary on contemporary politics without getting trapped in the flux of the present or being too on the nose.—
Jack Denton,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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To practice ‘future temporal focused’ networking, create a timetable and ask yourself key questions.—
Sarah Maokosy,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
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Unistellar plans to have over 1 million terrestrial points of interest added to its database, with Envision including real-time altitude, distance and azimuth data into the display.—
Tariq Malik,
Space.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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He was instantly hooked by Channel 4’s weekly NFL coverage following the terrestrial channel’s launch in 1982.—
Peter Carline,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Green Hill plans to help restart Smith Springs financially, provide manpower for physical work and could potentially have some of its congregants move to Smith Springs Baptist, officials said.—
Andy Humbles,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Oct. 2025
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Harbaugh wants to be a physical team.—
Daniel Popper,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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In 2022, the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 paved the way for alternatives to animal testing, and in December 2023, an NIH advisory committee made similar recommendations to develop non-animal methods.—
Rachel Fobar,
Vox,
14 May 2025
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Rendering is a process that transforms animal by-products, like leftover meat and fats...and yes, chicken feet, into usable materials, such as animal feed, fuel, and other industrial products.—
Phil Kafarakis,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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Co-written by Bentley with Greg Kwedar (the primary creative team behind ‘Sing Sing’), ‘Train Dreams’ thrives on its philosophical inquiries into the earthly randomness of events that make up a life.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
8 Oct. 2025
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Especially right now, when most of whatever happens next would seem to be determined by arbitrary and despotic centers of earthly power.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
7 Oct. 2025
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Sanchez was charged with felony battery involving serious bodily injury on Monday.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Originally, Ascher and Fraker were each charged with one count of failure to act to prevent bodily harm to a child, a felony that could have resulted in as much as six-year prison sentences.—
Jim Riccioli,
jsonline.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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Moncrieff was the opposite, old-worldly, not of this time.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Oct. 2025
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Parked nearby is a grocery cart filled with his worldly processions.—
Bea L. Hines,
Miami Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Mundane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mundane. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.
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