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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
Media night softened it temporarily and made entertainment out of the mundane practice of reporting.
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Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Most recordings of law enforcement are mundane and boring because most law enforcement officers follow the rules.
—The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2026
At the start of Pat Riley’s Heat stewardship in 1995, the question — with the Heat not having won anything since their 1988 inception — was whether something as mundane as a divisional banner ever would hang above the Heat’s court.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
All that whimsy and quirk might have been cloying, but the film has real things on its mind, including the mundane disappointments and insecurities of adult life.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 31 Jan. 2026
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Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Most recordings of law enforcement are mundane and boring because most law enforcement officers follow the rules.
—The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2026
At the start of Pat Riley’s Heat stewardship in 1995, the question — with the Heat not having won anything since their 1988 inception — was whether something as mundane as a divisional banner ever would hang above the Heat’s court.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
All that whimsy and quirk might have been cloying, but the film has real things on its mind, including the mundane disappointments and insecurities of adult life.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 31 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for mundane
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mundane
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Across from shops fixing cars and selling coffee, a black-and-white brick building is where locals go for a place that’s classic and classy, though scrumptious bar bites and a half-price wine night are everyday draws.—
USA TODAY NETWORK,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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While ChatGPT targeted everyday users, Anthropic has focused on selling chatbot services to business customers.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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What looked like ideological bias was, more often, temporal lag.—
Charles Edward Gehrke,
Fortune,
9 Feb. 2026
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Again and again, Tennyson fills his beautifully wrought poems with enormous, unfathomable depths—sometimes cosmic, sometimes temporal, sometimes psychological, often oceanic.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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But fertilizing terrestrial crops with marine material may muddle that work.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
11 Feb. 2026
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Traditionally, cars only connect to terrestrial cell towers.—
Noelle Harff,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Both Bloom’s and Brick’s physical devices may also give them an edge with young people who increasingly prefer the analog over the digital.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
13 Feb. 2026
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There are more overtly sexy moments in Fennell’s movie — the physical intimacy is ratcheted up significantly from the book — but this scene underlines the Brontë’s themes of desire and repression — and the friction between them — that imprinted on the filmmaker as a teen.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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Not quite plant, not quite animal; delicious and wild and rare.—
Callie Sumlin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
15 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, dogs were more likely to respond to animal stimuli than to non-animal stimuli.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 July 2025
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Iran’s rulers, like many religious fundamentalists, celebrate indifference to earthly life and pin their sights on posthumous rewards.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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Cognition and sensorimotor functions emerged from the evolutionary pressures of an unpredictable earthly environment.—
Rachel Barr,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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There are worldly couples, and then there’s Noha Olivia Fahmy and Syed Saif Ul Mujahid.—
Kaitlin Menza,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Feb. 2026
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Kitty, whose worldly possessions fit into two plastic bags, is seen repeatedly in the same clothes, and bourgeois hostility to her presence in Beth’s middle-class neighborhood compounds her feelings of worthlessness.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2026
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Chad Michael Watts, 45, faces two counts of assault causing bodily injury.—
Jessica Ma,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Jennifer Penton is charged with involuntary manslaughter, causing serious bodily injury to a person participating in a training program involving physical exercise, and perjury.—
Matt Schooley,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Mundane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mundane. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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