commonplaceness

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Noun
  • The everydayness of these items may also hold clues to their draw.
    Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The tariff refunds will help businesses get back to some semblance of normality.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Chloe Claudel, picking up on that thread, directs the play in a cleverly glitchy mode, giving you normality with sudden, jolting gestures that move it into territory that’s unsettling, hilarious, or oddly serene.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • Waymo’s self-driving cars have achieved mundanity on the streets of cities like Austin and Los Angeles, with London their next stop.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 May 2026
  • The Timberwolves lollygagged through the regular season, looking like a team that was above the mundanity of 82 games.
    Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • The biggest enemy of scientific progress isn’t groupthink at all, despite the commonness of this accusation.
    Big Think, Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Lane not only captures Willy’s ordinariness and his ubiquity, no small achievement for so famous an actor, but also his optimism, his foundational, near-Trumpian belief in a coming Very Big Deal for either him or his sons.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • To ensure the fairness and credibility of our readers’ poll, any votes originating from the same IP address that exceed 20 submissions will be excluded from the final tally.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2026
  • One attendee acknowledged that debate surrounding a high school athlete can become contentious, but argued the issue of fairness is straightforward.
    Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • The American people are sick and tired of mediocrity.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • The previous regime produced one winning season and a bunch of mediocrity.
    Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 5 May 2026
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“Commonplaceness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commonplaceness. Accessed 20 May. 2026.

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