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Meanings of banal in inglés

Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.

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Usage of banal in inglés
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But do we really need the banal content of the average tweet?
The Irish Times
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One reality is benign and banal; the other is invigorating and lethal.
Wired
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However, most importantly, we have confused the public with these banal comparisons!
Jamaica Observer
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The democratic process does not discriminate between the banal and the dramatic.
The Irish Times
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This fact was not banal at all, but unprecedented, shocking, and wrong.
The Guardian
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And I have no doubt that in substance it was singularly banal.
Tono-Bungay
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Why or why not So this may seem like a banal question.
Wired
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Their most provocative act, burning the money, was actually their most banal.
The Guardian
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Leading to the sense of being becoming banal and trite through overuse.
I'm not hanging noodles on your ears and other intriguing idioms...
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So, maybe that freakish stillness back in Cannes had quite banal roots?
The Guardian
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The examples quoted also hover dangerously on the edge of the banal.
The Guardian
12
Hull struck everyone in the room as almost comically banal and unpolished.
The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama
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The words were banal, but they would serve to break the ice.
The Letter of the Contract
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Useless to feign that a motor is the most banal thing imaginable.
The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
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The explanation returns us to the banal predictability of the human imagination.
Wired
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And yet he did not feel entirely banal as he said it.
In the Wilderness
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Banal through the time
Banal across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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