Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Common; unremarkable.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
garden variety .
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Examples
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The lawsuits, which were recently combined before a single federal judge in Miami, allege that the HMOs engage in what Scruggs calls "garden-variety consumer fraud."
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Your garden-variety video ad is typically just a TV commercial distributed on the web, which we've all learned to ignore.
Marshall Goldsmith: Why Hollywood is Placing its Bets on Viral Video Marshall Goldsmith 2011
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Analytical work on historical banking disasters by Harvard's Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff shows that post-collapse growth tends to be far slower than in the wake of common or garden-variety business-cycle recessions.
Fixing Problem Economies Is Like Wrestling a Balloon Simon Nixon 2011
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X-Lautrec and his fellow Surrealist poets say they are the most neglected minority in Boston, which officially recognizes both garden-variety ethnic and racial groups in its anti-discrimination laws as well as others, such as Eskimos and Aleutian Islanders, whose members within city limits rarely break into double figures.
"We Are the Last Minority" Say Surrealist Poets Con Chapman 2011
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That bunch of suburban girls in that garden-variety summer camp created an outpouring of thrill and joy that I have never forgotten.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Your garden-variety video ad is typically just a TV commercial distributed on the web, which we've all learned to ignore.
Marshall Goldsmith: Why Hollywood is Placing its Bets on Viral Video Marshall Goldsmith 2011
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The petunias and begonias that shoppers see in big-box retailers every spring may look garden-variety to untrained eyes, but they are special breeds that survive a grueling gantlet of field tests and focus groups to weed out their less hardy or floriferous brethren.
The Garden Gloves Come Off Miguel Bustillo 2011
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Besides, plain vanilla, garden-variety pedagogy is your best prostitution value.
Fallen Women 1010 Con Chapman 2011
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The woman said Congress lacked authority to punish her for the chemical assaults, because they amounted to garden-variety crimes normally punished by states.
High Court Expands Juvenile Protections Jess Bravin 2011
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When the Newark riot broke out, I watched the news on a kitchen TV with my co-workers, most of them either garden-variety potheads or revolutionary wannabes.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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