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Recent Examples of unextraordinary
Animated Short: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse My Year of Dicks is certainly the nominee with the most provocative title, but the film is episodic and its animation unextraordinary.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
Evelyn, by everyone around her, society at large, and even herself who sees unextraordinary ordinariness in her identity as a middle-aged woman.
—Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 14 Apr. 2022
The Swimmers finds the beauty in a seemingly unextraordinary life.
—Apoorva Tadepalli, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2022
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
Evelyn, by everyone around her, society at large, and even herself who sees unextraordinary ordinariness in her identity as a middle-aged woman.
—Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 14 Apr. 2022
The Swimmers finds the beauty in a seemingly unextraordinary life.
—Apoorva Tadepalli, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unextraordinary
Adjective
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The last two contenders were remarkably unremarkable.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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Her family stays on beside the ruins, and the film charts how occupation and its aftermath become the unremarkable background of her adolescence.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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My apprenticeship began with a simple disassembly, a typical exercise for new employees.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Frazier described a typical pricing cycle pattern, noting that spot prices move first, before highway contract rates follow suit with a three-to-six-month lag.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Sneaky Jon Cooper The Bolts showed their normal forward lines in pregame warmups, but then had other ideas once the puck dropped Friday night.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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All need normal care to become established, are freeze resistant and make durable plants for the landscape.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Some people don’t believe the current players support the ordinary people.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
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The price of Celsius crypto would go up, but it was being manipulated by those in charge, all as a way to get ordinary citizens to invest.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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At the conclusion of every regular season, provided the Knicks make the playoffs, the organization redesigns the corridor leading from the home locker room to the Madison Square Garden hardwood floors.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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But, yes, the Heat clearly failed to measure up during the regular season and likely would not have held their ground as well as the Magic did in their series opener against Detroit.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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That’s why nominating another batch of respectable but unexceptional candidates—the preference of the party’s DC establishment—could be deadly.—
Chris Smith,
Vanity Fair,
16 Feb. 2026
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Dad had always told me his father was a naval officer who'd had an unexceptional career and died suddenly in a traffic accident.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
5 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Flick was aware of what lay in store for his team and asked them to play a more pragmatic game than usual.—
Laia Cervelló Herrero,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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As the Moon moves through your 5th House of Creativity, your voice carries more impact than usual.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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But what Danielson says was intended as a symbolic protest escalated dramatically amid paranoid fantasies, prosaic miscommunications, and the false report of a gun.—
Tessa Stuart,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2026
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Or this object, known by the prosaic designation C/2026 A1 (MAPS), could totally disintegrate, vaporized by the fierce heat of our star.—
Tony Hoffman,
PC Magazine,
2 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Unextraordinary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unextraordinary. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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