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garden-variety

[gahr-dn-vuh-rahy-i-tee]

adjective

  1. common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of garden-variety1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Idioms and Phrases

Ordinary, common, as in I don't want anything special in a VCR—the garden variety will do. This term alludes to a common plant as opposed to a specially bred hybrid. [Colloquial; 1920]
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Call it a protective boy’s club — or garden-variety sexism — but this power imbalance impedes the narrator’s goals.

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Plus, Trump has been on a pardoning and commuting spree for financial criminals, setting free not just crypto industry favorites but garden-variety fraudsters.

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But there’s something in the performance that suggests more than another garden-variety monster.

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What for Lee is garden-variety disappointment about not having family around is, in Muriel, a more intangible sexual absence she can’t articulate beyond an interest in the appeal of risk.

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Musk deprioritized posts with links because he doesn’t want people clicking away from X. They already weren’t clicking, but the fiction that they might click has had a magnetic pull on journalists and garden-variety influencers who see the platform as one spoke in a wheel of content distribution.

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