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garden-variety

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

adjective

  1. common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.


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˜yÐÄvlog 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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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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Beck and Woods don’t have to dream up something alien when these kinds of garden-variety predators are common.

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At times, this approaches the tone of your garden-variety L.A. surfer bro, spouting anecdotes about the benefits of ayahuasca.

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This is not garden-variety hypocrisy, however.

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Like other docuseries with a knack for being in the right place at the right time, Goode and Cunningham are deeply insinuated in Haddix’s life as the situation evolves from garden-variety chimps in cowboy hats “strange†to “taking a kidnapping turn.â€

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