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Bain has long argued that online retailers need to offer customers a fair, not necessarily the lowest, price, and pricing research shows that fairness perceptions and loyalty are deeply intertwined.—
François Candelon,
Fortune,
12 June 2026 -
When individuals and institutions can understand and apply rules in real time, expectations of consistency, fairness, and accountability begin to shift.—
Joseph Andrew,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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But normality is gauged by behavior, an individual’s social life.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
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And, in the period since, a sense of normality has returned.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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The everydayness of these items may also hold clues to their draw.—
Wayne Chang,
CNN Money,
10 Nov. 2025
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Epic narratives worthy of a novel, as well as anecdotes of the quiet everydayness of everyday things, both grounding and inspiring.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Aug. 2025
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Belc is a thoroughly charming narrator of everything from finding meaning in the work of Deb Perelman and Ina Garten to parenting as a trans man to the maddening and joyful mundanity of running a household.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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The subtlety and mundanity of life is funny enough.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
31 May 2026
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Charles Wylie, the museum’s curator of photography, says the exhibit highlights the centrality of the Black experience in American history, from the tragedies to the mundaneness of family life.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Mar. 2026
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At the same time, Tacitus points readers to the prevalence and thus the normalization and commonness of this rhetoric, which can become an inseparable corollary of a program of making war.—
Timothy Joseph,
The Conversation,
21 Jan. 2026
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The biggest enemy of scientific progress isn’t groupthink at all, despite the commonness of this accusation.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
30 Oct. 2025
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Is there a positive case for being ordinary—a reason to actively pursue ordinariness, regardless of whether being great is overrated?—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
22 May 2026
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The very ordinariness of the image in the picture that Constable had painted had been a block to his professional advancement.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 May 2026
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“Second-rateness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/second-rateness. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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