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Recent Examples of run-of-the-mill This isn't your run-of-the-mill minivan, far from it. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2025 Movie sets, although perhaps more glamorous than offices, factories, or any other run-of-the-mill workplaces, are governed by the same employment laws and must provide the same employee protections as any other workplace. Legal Entertainment, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025 Most run-of-the-mill thong-style sandals come with flimsy, thin soles, and rock-hard plastic toe separators, leaving problem-prone feet sore, raw, and in way worse shape than before. Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025 But that ideal future can’t happen if the forces guiding it have such narrow vision as to schedule random, run-of-the-mill league fixtures against their sport’s version of Super Bowl Sunday. Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for run-of-the-mill
Recent Examples of Synonyms for run-of-the-mill
Adjective
  • Her exercises, lifted from decades of performance scores, are designed to turn ordinary acts into meditative rituals.
    Ellen O'Connell Whittet June 25, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025
  • Unlike ordinary memory supplements, Neuriva Memory 3D has clinically tested ingredients to support three dimensions of memory: short-term, long-term and working.
    Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Building a high-functioning AI agent isn’t cheap: from $5,000 at the low end to upwards of $20,000 just to get something decent off the ground.
    Brando Murphy, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Start by rolling them on a countertop with a decent amount of pressure; doing so helps release the lemon juice from its membranes.
    Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • This means that some particles will decay in the normal world while their counterparts in the mirror would not.
    Zack Savitsky, Wired News, 22 June 2025
  • On Tuesdays, theater tickets at Cinemark Century Folsom 7 cost $5.50, compared to the normal ticket price of $10.99.
    Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • To begin with, bombardment is unlikely to lead to a satisfactory outcome.
    Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 21 June 2025
  • At highway cruising speed, the SUV is satisfactory.
    James Raia, Mercury News, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • This is an excellent day for business and commercial ventures, because your objectives and goals are clearer to you than usual.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 22 June 2025
  • Did Bill Plaschke ghost-write these letters with his usual accurate predictions/suggestions?
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • Harrison, the key player for the Red Sox insofar as immediate return, has been a mediocre (4.48 ERA in 35 starts) mid-rotation starter for the Giants.
    Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 21 June 2025
  • While the pressure will be on for Switzerland to improve their mediocre tournament record, there is only one way to make diamonds (hint: starts with p and ends in ressure).
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • Temperatures will be around 87 degrees, which is typical for this time of year in the metro.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2025
  • Though on the surface the blazing, barking vocals and triple-time speed of the track are seemingly at odds with the Foos’ typical mix of pop hooks and radio-friendly rock, the cover makes perfect sense given Grohl’s punk rock pedigree.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • The bodysuit may be the most common item of clothing to wear under a see-through dress.
    Bianca Lambert, Glamour, 24 June 2025
  • The most common strains found in frozen yogurt are Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus.
    Lindsey DeSoto, Health, 24 June 2025

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“Run-of-the-mill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/run-of-the-mill. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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