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  • noun The state or quality of being routine, of possessing the traits of being quotidian, and repeating a pattern regularly

Etymologies

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routine +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • And when politician/lobbyists like Bayh promote policies that would lead to hardship, injury, and death, their relationship with decision-makers and journalists brings to mind Herman's descriptions of weapons lab employees who "derive support from interactions with others in the mutual effort while complicity is obscured by the routineness of the work, interdependence, and distance from the results."

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Weiner vs. Bayh: Which One's A Bigger Scandal? RJ 2011

  • And when politician/lobbyists like Bayh promote policies that would lead to hardship, injury, and death, their relationship with decision-makers and journalists brings to mind Herman's descriptions of weapons lab employees who "derive support from interactions with others in the mutual effort while complicity is obscured by the routineness of the work, interdependence, and distance from the results."

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Weiner vs. Bayh: Which One's A Bigger Scandal? RJ 2011

  • The task force recommendation was never a recommendation that women shouldn't get mammograms in their 40s, it was a recommendation about the routineness of doing it, said Dr. Diana Petitti, former vice chair of the task force and a professor of biomedical informatics at Arizona State University.

    Poll shows women in their 40s want mammograms, despite task force recommendations 2011

  • That routineness makes cochlear implants a threat to the signing deaf community.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • And when politician/lobbyists like Bayh promote policies that would lead to hardship, injury, and death, their relationship with decision-makers and journalists brings to mind Herman's descriptions of weapons lab employees who "derive support from interactions with others in the mutual effort while complicity is obscured by the routineness of the work, interdependence, and distance from the results."

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Weiner vs. Bayh: Which One's A Bigger Scandal? RJ 2011

  • The task force recommendation was never a recommendation that women shouldn't get mammograms in their 40s, it was a recommendation about the routineness of doing it, said Dr. Diana Petitti, former vice chair of the task force and a professor of biomedical informatics at Arizona State University.

    Poll shows women in their 40s want mammograms, despite task force recommendations 2011

  • That routineness makes cochlear implants a threat to the signing deaf community.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • And when politician/lobbyists like Bayh promote policies that would lead to hardship, injury, and death, their relationship with decision-makers and journalists brings to mind Herman's descriptions of weapons lab employees who "derive support from interactions with others in the mutual effort while complicity is obscured by the routineness of the work, interdependence, and distance from the results."

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Weiner vs. Bayh: Which One's A Bigger Scandal? RJ 2011

  • The thing that cures routines of their ... well, routineness, is imagination.

    Dr. Susan Corso: Back to School and Conscious Routine 2010

  • The thing that cures routines of their ... well, routineness, is imagination.

    Dr. Susan Corso: Back to School and Conscious Routine 2010

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