1
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
Now working a mundane HR job, Adam is not shy about telling people about his childhood on another planet and will explain this to anyone who will listen to him.
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Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 4 June 2026
While tungsten's role in weapons is driving the current crisis, its reach extends to far more mundane corners of American life, from the dentist's chair to the fishing hole.
—Kevin Williams, CNBC, 3 June 2026
There will be plenty of opportunity for people to up-skill, focus more on serving the customer, for buyers touching and procuring product, and have mundane tasks done by technology.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 3 June 2026
Tech companies for years have been trying to create digital helpers for mundane digital tasks, like building shopping carts, tracking online orders and planning trips.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 3 June 2026
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Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 4 June 2026
While tungsten's role in weapons is driving the current crisis, its reach extends to far more mundane corners of American life, from the dentist's chair to the fishing hole.
—Kevin Williams, CNBC, 3 June 2026
There will be plenty of opportunity for people to up-skill, focus more on serving the customer, for buyers touching and procuring product, and have mundane tasks done by technology.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 3 June 2026
Tech companies for years have been trying to create digital helpers for mundane digital tasks, like building shopping carts, tracking online orders and planning trips.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 3 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mundane
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Launched within JioHotstar with more than 100 original titles, Tadka features vertical, episodic stories ranging from 30 to 60 seconds, designed for mobile-first consumption with narratives rooted in everyday emotions, relationships and contemporary Indian culture.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
11 June 2026
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Balance transfer fee Greater of 5% or $5 The earnings on both of these cards can be increased by exchanging $200 in Bilt Cash for a 1X Point Accelerator on everyday spend for the next $5,000 in purchases following activation (activate up to five times per year for a total of 25,000 bonus points).—
Jason Stauffer,
CNBC,
10 June 2026
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The patterns for specific cities aren’t predictable like temporal seasons, reflecting instead unique elements of each.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
9 June 2026
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But during the imaging process, doctors noticed something else entirely — a four-centimeter mass in the left temporal region of Linkin's brain.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
7 June 2026
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One theory for why the scorpion got to be so big is to avoid being eaten, as one of the earliest terrestrial beings of its kind, according to the study.—
Shraddha Chakradhar,
CNN Money,
10 June 2026
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Nobody has done more for extra-terrestrial PR than Steven Spielberg.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
9 June 2026
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At the time, detectives collected and preserved physical evidence but were unable to narrow down a suspect.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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As for agentic commerce, in Jain’s framing, only Google, Anthropic, and Bilt have the breadth of demand-side merchant integrations to power AI commerce in the physical world.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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The charity reports a 70% increase in multi-animal incidents across England and Wales since 2021, defining such cases as those involving 10 or more animals.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
9 Apr. 2026
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Regulators are trying to push drug development into a post-animal testing era.—
Meghana Keshavan,
STAT,
19 Mar. 2026
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The British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, who converted to Christianity late in his life, pointed out that Jesus’s entire ministry was directed against the pretensions of earthly power.—
Peter Wehner,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
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On a metal album, even the ugliest sounds tend to have some earthly referent.—
Brad Sanders,
Pitchfork,
8 June 2026
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The sacred meets the secular in this long-running pairing of a young vicar with a worldly police detective in the titular idyllic Cambridgeshire village during the 1950s and ‘60s.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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Here, against the intimate interiority of this elegant narrative, untamed urges clash with Confucian ideals of filial piety and Buddhist undertones of the suffering caused by worldly attachments.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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The internet may be full of people who want to outlaw leaf blowers, but misophonic triggers tend to share a bodily quality, an aurally traceable culprit such as a person crunching or sighing.—
Sloane Crosley,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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He was arrested and charged with manslaughter as well as assault and battery causing serious bodily injury.—
Riley Rourke,
CBS News,
8 June 2026
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“Mundane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mundane. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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