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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 first 13 minutes of Stewart’s interview with House were unremarkable.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
25 Apr. 2026
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Thereafter, a dedicated team began removing the soil from what appeared to be an unremarkable lump.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In typical fashion, singer and fashion powerhouse Rihanna shut down the carpet as the final guest to arrive much earlier than in year’s past.—
Beatrice Dupuy,
Chicago Tribune,
5 May 2026
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Comparing local rents to a broad measure of monthly ownership cost for a buyer – mortgage, taxes, insurance and maintenance – Zillow found the typical California renter in the six metros theoretically saved $191 monthly compared with owning.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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There’s a Marshalls on the Strip, a flashy glassy Marshalls being scaled by King Kong–like blinking M&M’s, but this was a normal strip-mall Marshalls.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Temperatures will return closer to 'normal' beginning on Sunday afternoon, with highs near 60 degrees.—
Ron Smiley,
CBS News,
2 May 2026
Adjective
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Each episode closes the gap between inspiration and action, reminding audiences that remarkable brands are built by ordinary people who choose to keep going.—
Ascend Agency,
New York Daily News,
4 May 2026
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The only administrative requirements should be the ordinary ones that are necessary in order to maintain any system, such as confirming identity and preventing fraud, not ones that screen people out of necessary care.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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Ben Clemens at FanGraphs measured the change, relative to the 2025 regular season, and found that the zone has shrunk at the top of the zone and on the edges of the plate.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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Despite his pectoral injury, Kancey battled back last season to play in the regular-season finale at Carolina.—
Rick Stroud,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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That’s why nominating another batch of respectable but unexceptional candidates—the preference of the party’s DC establishment—could be deadly.—
Chris Smith,
Vanity Fair,
16 Feb. 2026
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Dad had always told me his father was a naval officer who'd had an unexceptional career and died suddenly in a traffic accident.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
5 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The show, which opens to the public May 10, examines the relationship between fashion, art and the body, giving the weekend’s pre-parties their usual mix of celebrity dressing, designer visibility and red carpet prelude.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
3 May 2026
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How much does this show deviate from Goodspeed as usual?—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
3 May 2026
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Similarly, the cast wrings some poetry out of the prosaic, often aphoristic dialogue.—
Robert Lloyd,
Houston Chronicle,
1 May 2026
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But what Danielson says was intended as a symbolic protest escalated dramatically amid paranoid fantasies, prosaic miscommunications, and the false report of a gun.—
Tessa Stuart,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Unextraordinary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unextraordinary. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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