run-of-the-mill
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What the secular calendar does that your run-of-the-mill perpetual calendar can’t is skip the leap year at the top of each century, which our calendar must do to account for orbital anomalies.
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Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2024
Malicious hacks and ransomware attacks, not to mention run-of-the-mill software failures, are like the weather now: partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of your app crashing or your personal information being circulated on the Dark Web.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2024
There are your run-of-the-mill, garden variety NBA blowouts.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2024
Much of the time, though, run-of-the-mill defenders of animal welfare have ended up with the short straw.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 28 Mar. 2024
Dark Matter could seem like run-of-the-mill prestige TV—adapted from a bestselling book (by Blake Crouch), noir-ish in look and tone—except its cut-above cast raises the stakes.
—Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024
Its sound design is cacophonous, emphasizing every footstep, breath and gunshot to a disorienting degree, despite being rooted in the POV of characters whose hearing, and whose relationship to atmospheric sound, is ostensibly run-of-the-mill.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024
Buying a bottle of premade sauce, dumping it in a pan with a few other run-of-the-mill ingredients, and calling it a day is the easiest and most cost-effective way to solve all of the above.
—Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 13 Mar. 2024
There’s a difference, of course, between the kind of fame experienced by members of the royal family and run-of-the-mill celebrity fame or political notoriety.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2024
Malicious hacks and ransomware attacks, not to mention run-of-the-mill software failures, are like the weather now: partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of your app crashing or your personal information being circulated on the Dark Web.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2024
There are your run-of-the-mill, garden variety NBA blowouts.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2024
Much of the time, though, run-of-the-mill defenders of animal welfare have ended up with the short straw.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 28 Mar. 2024
Dark Matter could seem like run-of-the-mill prestige TV—adapted from a bestselling book (by Blake Crouch), noir-ish in look and tone—except its cut-above cast raises the stakes.
—Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024
Its sound design is cacophonous, emphasizing every footstep, breath and gunshot to a disorienting degree, despite being rooted in the POV of characters whose hearing, and whose relationship to atmospheric sound, is ostensibly run-of-the-mill.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024
Buying a bottle of premade sauce, dumping it in a pan with a few other run-of-the-mill ingredients, and calling it a day is the easiest and most cost-effective way to solve all of the above.
—Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 13 Mar. 2024
There’s a difference, of course, between the kind of fame experienced by members of the royal family and run-of-the-mill celebrity fame or political notoriety.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
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“Run-of-the-mill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/run-of-the-mill. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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