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banalities

noun

plural of banality

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an idea or expression that has been used by many people another sitcom based on the banality of roommates with opposite personalities

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Recent Examples of banalities Then morning would come, with all the banalities that drew them apart. — Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2026 And even though access to such banalities may sound brain-deadening, and at best dull, some of the most famous people in the world are now live-streamers. — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026 For all the women looking up at me to think of me not as a crying heap on a toilet whose baby never latched but as someone who found meaning in all of our daily banalities. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026 And yet for God’s sake, just look at the man—at his dispiriting attempts at humor, his weirdly off-putting outfits, his incessant posting of banalities and faux profundities and extreme-right disinformation on social media. — Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026 Here, Laura, a magazine writer in London, drifts through old friendships, failed romances, and the gothic banalities of family life. — Air Mail, 20 June 2026 One effect of this austerity and repression is to focus attention on Albee’s language, with its slippery banalities and barbs. — Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026 As far back as the Victorian era, exchanging a few banalities was part of a veritable social code—a way of signaling both politeness and boundaries. — Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2025 Written by Noah Oppenheim, Bigelow’s real-time thriller about the banalities and actualities of a fictional-in-premise-only nuclear attack on the United States is Netflix’s best horse in the race at the Oscars this year. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 19 Sep. 2025

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Noun

In the second game of Monday’s doubleheader, Marmol showed his words weren’t just platitudes, pitching to Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz to start the bottom of the 10th inning with the automatic runner on second and first base open.

— C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Today, Instagram unveiled a refresh of its wordmark, accompanied by the usual bland corporate platitudes these kinds of announcements are always packaged with.

— Aurich Lawson, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of platitudes

Noun

The president used similar bromides in private calls to assuage allies, including Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson, before launching the war in February, according to people familiar with the conversations.

— Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
While these songs might appear to be somewhat straightforward EBM that wear their politics on their latex sleeve, there’s a level of ambiguity at work that moves Kissing Luck Goodbye past its own bromides and into deeper artistic territory.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 16 Apr. 2026

Definition of bromides

Noun

Spain’s success over the past five years has undermined many long-standing political-economic truisms.

— Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
The play isn’t subtle; the final sequence leans hard on truisms about addiction and trauma, which are affecting but overly explicit.

— Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2026

Definition of truisms

Noun

As part of their annual Halloween decor drop, Anthropologie released Halloween bistro tile items that blend classic motifs and sayings with the Bistro Tile Collection’s Parisian style.

— Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Aug. 2026
Teachers of science, mathematics and English were expected to include Quranic verses, sayings and traditions attributed to the Prophet Muhammad or other religious messages in their lessons.

— Fatima Faizi, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026

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