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Noun
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And in fairness, any power play would struggle when losing a piece like Kane, who is one of the league’s best playmakers.—
Max Bultman,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025 -
Noble attributes this shift in partisan trust for election fairness to the 2024 general election wins for Republicans across the federal government.—
Center Square,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Oct. 2025
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Strength in this area transcends all career levels and separates excellence from normality.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Omar’s office is characterized by pristine normality — with its glass walls and desktop computers, its phones and its headsets.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 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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Most major celebrities or pop artists will tell you their lives are spent in a glass cage, and yearn for mundanity as much as some pine for fame.—
Jaeden Pinder,
Pitchfork,
3 Oct. 2025
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None of the ensemble really bursts out, grounded down by the mundanity of the approach, which has to be by design.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
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Theresa is easy not to notice in everyday life, and Keaton tapped into that ordinariness, along with the wanderlust that gripped so many discontented antiheroes of the 1970s.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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There is something about that ordinariness that is extraordinary.—
Jeff Conway,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Second-rateness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/second-rateness. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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