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as in normal
being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events
we're just an everyday family, with a dog and a cat and bills to pay
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as in mundane
having to do with the practical details of regular life
even the richest man in town has to do such everyday tasks as shaving his face and brushing his teeth
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as in casual
not designed to be worn only on special occasions
everyday clothes will be fine for this party
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as in usual
often observed or encountered
the book provides solutions to everyday problems
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Recent Examples of everyday
The Shark Navigator brings high-end precision to everyday floor care with its SmartPath LiDAR technology, which maps your home in real-time to ensure a methodical, row-by-row clean.
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Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
For everyday washing, Consumer Reports and FDA guidance recommend low-pressure running water for at least 20 seconds with gentle rubbing.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 25 Mar. 2026
Sephardic populations once regularly spoke Judeo-Spanish as an everyday language, reserving the calque variety for religious or instructional contexts.
—Bryan Kirschen, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
Perkins dedicated her career to supporting everyday working Americans through policies that still impact us today.
—Amanda Hatch, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
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Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
For everyday washing, Consumer Reports and FDA guidance recommend low-pressure running water for at least 20 seconds with gentle rubbing.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 25 Mar. 2026
Sephardic populations once regularly spoke Judeo-Spanish as an everyday language, reserving the calque variety for religious or instructional contexts.
—Bryan Kirschen, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
Perkins dedicated her career to supporting everyday working Americans through policies that still impact us today.
—Amanda Hatch, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for everyday
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James turned forty-one at the end of that month, an age at which many people start to notice the normal degeneration of their tendons and joints.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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The start of the day seemed very normal to me.—
Peter Van Sant,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
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Another busied himself writing and rewriting the mundane information on his slate.—
Taran Khan,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026
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Somehow, their mundane jobs always descend into surreal chaos, much to the annoyance of their boss and coworkers.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
23 Mar. 2026
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The podcast aesthetic—casual, long-winded, sometimes profane—directly opposes, perhaps not coincidentally, the sterility and bizarre right-this-minute quality of cable news, on which everything seems incomplete and therefore manipulative, and yet somehow endless.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2026
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The result is a smaller but more engaged core market — one that is spending more per household even as casual participation declines.—
Asaf Elia-Shalev,
Sun Sentinel,
23 Mar. 2026
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Staffing shortages have forced some travelers to build in significantly more time before flights – sometimes hours more than usual.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
23 Mar. 2026
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February 19 – March 20 Home is where the heart is — that’s even more true than usual.—
Tarot.com,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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Many Catholic theologians believe that ordinary care and treatment such as feeding tubes, on the other hand, should be continued.—
Robert S. Olick,
The Conversation,
23 Mar. 2026
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Send no one back to Congress who will not commit to tax reform benefiting ordinary Americans.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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Crain requested an informal report on data centers from city staff on Monday, March 23.—
Emily Holshouser,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Mar. 2026
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By the end of production, Simmonds was running informal signing tests with the rest of the cast on set during breaks.—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2026
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Cheap, ubiquitous and always on, cameras are uniquely useful targets.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2026
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Netflix became ubiquitous as a subscription product, while YouTube became the go-to platform for younger (and then increasingly older) viewing habits.—
Andrew Marchand,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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Thousands are now not showing up for work, hundreds have quit altogether, and the average wait time at airports has reached record levels.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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That’s the view of Robinhood, which counts 250,000 customers paying on average $250 annually to use its Strategies, an AI tool guided by human advisors.—
Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Everyday.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/everyday. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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