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Recent Examples of quotidian After a seemingly quotidian afternoon in Paris, the antiquarian bookseller Tara Selter wakes up in her hotel room the next morning only to find the same day happening again. The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024 The Real Housewives franchise started as a modest examination into the absurdities of the quotidian lives of the upper class — a little bit Desperate Housewives, a little bit Laguna Beach, with a lot of glam in between. Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 27 Jan. 2025 Valadez, for example, who is Chicano, depicts quotidian aspects of Mexican American life as a way of countering stereotypes. Carolina A. Miranda, ARTnews.com, 15 Jan. 2025 Displacement breaks through the mushy memories of quotidian life. Matt Goulding, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for quotidian
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quotidian
Adjective
  • Several key figures - see Kevin de Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan and Kyle Walker - are now into the twilights of their respective careers and so Guardiola’s team have been unable to play its usual style of high-energy, high-intensity soccer.
    Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Three times in the past week, and six since Trump took office a little more than two months ago, the Justice Department has asked the conservative-majority high court to step into cases much earlier than usual.
    Time, Time, 29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Keep a daily running score or just play for a new score each day.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Newsletter Go beyond the scoreboard Get the latest on L.A.'s teams in the daily Sports Report newsletter.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2025
  • As most of you probably know, Arm is near ubiquitous in the automotive, mobile, High-Performance Computing (HPC), and Internet of Things markets.
    Marco Chiappetta, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Over time, investing in Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) or Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs), which serve traditionally underserved markets, has become commonplace.
    Brock Blake, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The mass protests that have become commonplace since October 7 are not so much against the military or war writ large, but in favor of a ceasefire deal to bring home hostages held in Gaza.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Whatever the case, deer tend to use familiar travel corridors.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2025
  • On stage at Chicago Shakespeare’s Yard theater, the familiar iconography of the jukebox musical, a venerable Anglo-American genre, is being rehearsed.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Gains realized on investments sold within a one-year holding period are classified as short-term capital gains, which are taxed at your ordinary income tax rate.
    True Tamplin, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • What would push an ordinary person to these extraordinary circumstances?
    JD Barker, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Itchy eyes and a congested nose are common in spring, although some parts of the country tend to have a worse allergy season than others.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The United States, wary of centralized government power in the wake of its fight for independence from Britain, has consciously never formed anything resembling the national police forces that are so common in other countries.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Sources of 2023 household debt in the US include: Credit Cards: $1.13 trillion Mortgage: $12.25 trillion Auto Loans: 1.61 trillion Student Loans: $1.6 trillion Outstanding balances also include debt from retail credit cards, consumer loans and other non-household expenses.
    Kara Nelson, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Hancock said in the statement that his family canceled their traditional multi-household Thanksgiving celebration.
    NBC News, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2020

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“Quotidian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quotidian. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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