as in normal
being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events
a quiet and unremarkable child
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Recent Examples of unremarkable
One year earlier, the Wild had added Justin Brazeau from Boston at the deadline, and his time in Minnesota was brief (25 games) and unremarkable (four points, total).
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Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 20 Mar. 2026
The Lick On an otherwise unremarkable day, a young woman in a gray Chevy Impala pulled up to the front of a sprawling modern home in a sleepy Florida town.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2026
Each joke is more unremarkable than the last and likely to slip out of one’s memory cleanly like a high-fiber bowel movement.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
The characters in Hamnet and Train Dreams eventually come to terms with how every life—no matter how short or unremarkable—contains meaning.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
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Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 20 Mar. 2026
The Lick On an otherwise unremarkable day, a young woman in a gray Chevy Impala pulled up to the front of a sprawling modern home in a sleepy Florida town.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2026
Each joke is more unremarkable than the last and likely to slip out of one’s memory cleanly like a high-fiber bowel movement.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
The characters in Hamnet and Train Dreams eventually come to terms with how every life—no matter how short or unremarkable—contains meaning.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unremarkable
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The mall resumed operations as normal following the shooting, as police determined there was no threat to the general public.—
Andrew Adeolu,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Waymo vehicles also can take 30 minutes to wait for and twice as long as a normal ride.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Many Catholic theologians believe that ordinary care and treatment such as feeding tubes, on the other hand, should be continued.—
Robert S. Olick,
The Conversation,
23 Mar. 2026
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Send no one back to Congress who will not commit to tax reform benefiting ordinary Americans.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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The tank was placed on the ice March 10 and fell through by March 25, weeks earlier than usual.—
Spencer Wilson,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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The injury riddled Kings — playing their second game in 24 hours and their third in four nights — were even more shorthanded than usual.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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Thousands are now not showing up for work, hundreds have quit altogether, and the average wait time at airports has reached record levels.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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That’s the view of Robinhood, which counts 250,000 customers paying on average $250 annually to use its Strategies, an AI tool guided by human advisors.—
Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
26 Mar. 2026
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In early 2019 and in late 2025, two federal government shutdowns ended shortly after travel disruptions escalated following higher-than-typical absences of air traffic controllers.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
23 Mar. 2026
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The education budget in a typical year is about a third of the city’s total financial plan, which has historically failed to account for actual spending.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Lines and other extended objects seem to be commonplace and even expected in QFT, which ostensibly describes pointlike objects.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
23 Mar. 2026
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Although commonly associated with the visual arts, anonymity is commonplace in other disciplines, including music, with formerly anonymous stars including Australian singer Sia and French electronic duo Daft Pank.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
22 Mar. 2026
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“Unremarkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unremarkable. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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