garden-variety

• “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.”

  TIME.com: Top Stories

• “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 Wall Street Journal: The Garden Gloves Come Off

• “The woman said Congress lacked authority to punish her for the chemical assaults, because they amounted to garden-variety crimes normally punished by states.”

  The Wall Street Journal: High Court Expands Juvenile Protections

• “Your garden-variety video ad is typically just a TV commercial distributed on the web, which we've all learned to ignore.”

  The Huffington Post: Marshall Goldsmith: Why Hollywood is Placing its Bets on Viral Video

• “Besides, plain vanilla, garden-variety pedagogy is your best prostitution value.”

  Fictionaut: Fallen Women 1010

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Deconstructing Obama

• “That bunch of suburban girls in that garden-variety summer camp created an outpouring of thrill and joy that I have never forgotten.”

  Simon & Schuster: World Wide Mind

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Fixing Problem Economies Is Like Wrestling a Balloon

• “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.”

  Fictionaut: "We Are the Last Minority" Say Surrealist Poets

• “Bill Brady is not your garden-variety downstate conservative.”

  The Huffington Post: Terry Cosgrove: Bill Brady: The Most Anti-Woman Nominee to Ever Run for Illinois Governor

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