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workaday

[wur-kuh-dey] / ˈwɜr kəˌdeɪ /














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But as chipmakers prioritise the lucrative AI industry, they are producing fewer of the more workaday chips used in everyday consumer electronics like phones and laptops, pushing up device prices.

From Barron's Apr. 22, 2026

In a 1991 interview, Kurosawa recalled the origins of “Seven Samurai” as a story about the workaday existence of a single samurai.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 2026

After wrestling with those weighty questions, he posed a more workaday one: “What’s gonna be the gas price tomorrow?”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2025

This fundamentally misunderstands the appeal of conspiracies, though, which is that it’s more fun and exciting to believe in them instead of in workaday truths.

From Slate May 24, 2025

Not the routine, not just the fitting together of things that no one had guessed at fitting, not the making of connections; these are merely the workaday details, the methods of operating.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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