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as in normal
being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events
the once-powerful hurricane eventually abated into just a garden-variety tropical storm
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as in usual
often observed or encountered
the bakery's extravagant creations are not your garden-variety wedding cakes
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Recent Examples of garden-variety
Here are the top stories from the Miami Herald about Alligator Alcatraz:
Shortly after President Donald Trump left the brand new detention facility to hold immigrants in the middle of the Everglades, a garden-variety South Florida summer rainstorm started.
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Miami Herald, 4 July 2025
Sending troops into a major American city on the flimsiest of pretexts, along with the usual clutch of garden-variety Trumpian offenses, certainly helped.
—George Kalogerakis, Air Mail, 21 June 2025
But, outside of garden-variety speculation, nobody knows anything.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Brian Colbert ran on a parochial platform focused on garden-variety local issues.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
In a free insurance market, a garden-variety health plan would be a price taker in the market for prescription drugs.
—John C. Goodman, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
Brief eye contact and about a dozen words are all Abel and the enigmatic Anima (Jenna Ortega) need to establish a connection closer than garden-variety groupie-ism.
—Charles Bramesco, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
For Level 2 systems, minor property damage incidents—including door dings, curb kisses and garden-variety fender benders—will now generally be excluded from reporting requirements.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 2 May 2025
But there’s something in the performance that suggests more than another garden-variety monster.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Miami Herald, 4 July 2025
Sending troops into a major American city on the flimsiest of pretexts, along with the usual clutch of garden-variety Trumpian offenses, certainly helped.
—George Kalogerakis, Air Mail, 21 June 2025
But, outside of garden-variety speculation, nobody knows anything.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Brian Colbert ran on a parochial platform focused on garden-variety local issues.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
In a free insurance market, a garden-variety health plan would be a price taker in the market for prescription drugs.
—John C. Goodman, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
Brief eye contact and about a dozen words are all Abel and the enigmatic Anima (Jenna Ortega) need to establish a connection closer than garden-variety groupie-ism.
—Charles Bramesco, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
For Level 2 systems, minor property damage incidents—including door dings, curb kisses and garden-variety fender benders—will now generally be excluded from reporting requirements.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 2 May 2025
But there’s something in the performance that suggests more than another garden-variety monster.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for garden-variety
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By morning, service on the subway had resumed on a normal schedule.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
15 July 2025
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Newsweek has contacted the White House press office for comment outside of normal business hours.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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As usual, Trump did most of the talking, but Rutte was clearly on board and confirmed key details.—
Daniel Fried,
Time,
15 July 2025
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For deeper repair, apply generously as an overnight scalp and hair mask, then wash and style as usual the next day.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
15 July 2025
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The researchers suggest a particular chemical marker that could be a dead giveaway of dark dwarfs — the isotope lithium-7, which burns easily and is therefore quickly consumed by ordinary stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
7 July 2025
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Though North Korea sent over special forces units that are better trained and supplied than ordinary infantry, the initial deployment lacked an effective and agile command structure.—
Natasha Lindstaedt,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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But though artificial intelligence has become nearly ubiquitous, from smartphones to chatbots to self-driving cars, its impact on health care so far has been relatively low.—
Turgay Ayer,
The Conversation,
11 July 2025
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Fabrications for a modern game of show-and-tell range from clear tonal plastics to silver mesh but easily the strongest concepts come in rope — direct off the runway of bohemian Chloé and ‘It’ girl cool Miu Miu, proposing a winking upgrade to the ubiquitous raffia accessories of summer.—
Thomas Waller,
Footwear News,
10 July 2025
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The size of a typical studio apartment is 500 to 600 square feet.—
Kate Talerico,
Mercury News,
14 July 2025
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Over a 40-year career, the typical Black woman will lose approximately $1 million compared to her white male co-workers.—
Sughnen Yongo,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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This is an example of the complex variations and phase outs of tax changes that are common in the BBB, and which make understanding the changes and planning for them quite complex.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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One of the most common and harmful examples is the Social Security Administration phishing scam, which targets unsuspecting individuals with alarming and deceptive messages.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
6 July 2025
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According to Baseball Savant, his average fastball of 92.4 mph is in just the 21st percentile of pitchers in the game, but his fastball’s run value is in the 89th percentile.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
9 July 2025
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The average term of those loans as of the first quarter this year was 69.5 months.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN Money,
9 July 2025
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Managers saw themselves as solving the equivalent of familiar jigsaw puzzles.—
Steve Denning,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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The whole first half of the season saw Hamilton struggle to adapt to the Italian race car, and Silverstone was another chapter in a familiar story.—
Nelson Espinal,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 July 2025
Cite this Entry
“Garden-variety.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garden-variety. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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