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muhn dayn

  • s  found in the ordinary course of events
  • s  concerned with the world or worldly matters
    mundane affairs
  • s  belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind"

  • A mosquito net may appear very simple and mundane but in rural Africa it is political dynamite.
  • Everyone thought that the lift operator's job was very mundane till one day when one of the cables of the lift snapped.
  • The actor was able to emote the layered emotion beneath the mundane dialogues with dexterity.
News & Articles

  • No Black Hole Or Magnetic Monopole: Tunguska Really Was a Meteor
    davide-nature writes "The mysterious blast that flattened 2,000 square km of a remote Siberian forest in 1908 has been blamed on the most bizarre causes, such as an exotic elementary particle left over from the Big Bang, a black hole or, of course, aliens, including in the double-episode 'Tunguska' of The X-Files. But a new analysis of tiny rock samples suggests that a more mundane explanation ...
    June 11, 2013 - Slashdot
  • Facebook Ends ‘Sponsored Stories’ Advertisements
    Facebook announced that it will no longer offer advertisers the ability to place Sponsored Stories, controversial advertisements that turn your social media activity into a commercial. Sponsored Stories are a way for advertisers to take your actions on Facebook and pay to share them with the world. Naturally, though, companies are uninterested in your old photos and mundane updates – they’re ...
    June 11, 2013 - Techland
  • “The Big, Bad, Book of Beasts:” odd and wonderful animals
    Michael Largo’s compendium “The Big, Bad Book of Beasts” finds the strange and wonderful in the animal kingdom, from the microscopic to the mundane.
    June 9, 2013 - Seattle Times
Quotes

  • Seth Green in Baltimore Sun
    Lampooning pop culture, as "Robot Chicken" always does, the special "takes something that you know about, and explains why it's silly," says Green, "or points out what COULD have happened, just off-screen. We love to emphasize the mundane in...
  • Paris Hilton in guardian.co.uk
    The letter to Mr Schwarzenegger says Ms Hilton should be freed because "she provides hope for young people all over the US and the world. She provides beauty and excitement to (most of) our otherwise mundane lives."

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