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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
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An otherwise unremarkable bank account belonging to a local Realtor suddenly began transferring cash to and from locations across the globe, including to Russia’s Sberbank.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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His existence as an unremarkable man is overturned, and as things spiral violently out of control, he is forced to flee and change his life completely in a movie that rides the new wave of French horror.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The Midea Flexify Air Fryer isn’t your typical air fryer.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
7 Nov. 2025
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Nearby Leyte and northern parts of Mindanao, both populous islands in the center of the country, saw between 150 and 250 mm (6 to 10 inches) of rain in only 24 hours — well above the typical monthly rainfall for November.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Shawn Dahl, a space weather forecaster at the Space Weather Prediction Center, notes that an additional, even stronger CME is expected midday Wednesday — along with the chance to see the northern lights farther south than normal.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
12 Nov. 2025
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Members will be able to shop inside the warehouse during normal business hours.—
Alex Perry,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
11 Nov. 2025
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Obviously, fastidious double-entry bookkeeping reduces the margin for error, even in complicated accounts, but more than that, once accounts become commonplace, ordinary people begin to think of the world in terms of accounts.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Nov. 2025
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But this isn’t an ordinary cookbook, one with 30-minute recipes and sensible serving sizes.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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McCutcheon, who scored four goals in the regular season, seems to shift into a second gear during the playoffs, having now scored three times in four postseason games.—
Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
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Managing fatigue and high blood pressure involves lifestyle changes like eating a balanced diet, staying active, and getting regular checkups.—
Alexandria Nyembwe,
Health,
7 Nov. 2025
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Rake and trail figures are an unexceptional 24.5 degrees and 100 mm, with a wheelbase of 56.5 inches (1,435 mm).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Oct. 2025
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The monologue that led to Kimmel’s involuntary hiatus was thoroughly unexceptional for the show.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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His usual producer, Nick Schwarz, took the first crack at it and cut a version that hit hard.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
5 Nov. 2025
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Across all household sizes, the SNAP reduction is roughly 49 percent—meaning households claiming the top amount will get about half of their usual monthly benefit in November.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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By hinting that his business was the victim of shape-shifting saboteurs, Westergaard distracted from the more prosaic story about the carelessness of his staff.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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The most prosaic explanation is that Villarroel’s transients are simply artifacts in the photographic plates such as speckles of dust, blobs in the emulsion or even radioactive particles.—
Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Unextraordinary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unextraordinary. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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