as in unremarkable
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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 message itself was unremarkable – just another tech announcement on X – but its implications were anything but ordinary.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Gentry Lee is a remarkable man who is also thoroughly unremarkable.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The physical and financial strains typical of an aging household may have caused hardships for removing vegetation – a best practice in protecting a structure from an ember fire.—
Calvin Schermerhorn,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2025
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Overnight, temperatures will remain in the 50s, well above the 41 degrees typical for this date.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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On the opposite side, the anti-Tesla group — which moved up its protest to 10 a.m. from its normal noon start in anticipation of the counterprotest — had more than 200 at its peak.—
Nathaniel Levine,
Sacbee.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Across Los Angeles and Ventura counties, temperatures are expected to be five to 12 degrees below normal, Lund said.—
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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For most ordinary owners, there's always one area of the house that could use a little TLC.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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The group were among around 7,000 people recently released from scam centers run by criminal gangs and warlords operating along Myanmar’s border with Thailand, where many are held against their will and forced to work conning ordinary people, including American citizens, out of their life savings.—
Teele Rebane,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Monk missed the last nine games of the 2023-24 regular season and two play-in games due to a right MCL sprain.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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At 97 points and with four games remaining in the regular season, the Bolts sit three points behind the Toronto Maple Leafs for the Atlantic Division lead.—
Jason Clinkscales,
Sportico.com,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The Zapad exercises were unexceptional in and of themselves.—
Emily Ferris,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Oct. 2017
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The movie offers phantasmagorical twists on unexceptional banalities.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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And another aspect is the world of television in Spain, this mixture of the sublime and prosaic.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
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How the Thieves Pulled it Off The M.O. in the Gardner heist is much more prosaic than what people see on the silver screen.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Unextraordinary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unextraordinary. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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