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  1. Tragedy of the Commons?

    2. (From the intermediate sense of, Open to the use of all the community): Commonplace, common, trite; trivial, petty.

    [1837 Athenæum No. 504. 453 These bannales personages are ‘much of a muchness.’]
    1840 New Monthly Mag. 59 458 All that her late companions can draw from her is the banal declaration, that she ‘never knew what happiness was before’.
    1864 N. & Q. 3rd Ser. 6 480 Facetious fools‥set up the banal laugh.
    1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. x. 36 You must show the warrant, just The banal scrap, clerk’s scribble.
    1883 R. F. Burton & V. F. Cameron To Gold Coast I. iii. 54 Prizes were banal as medals after a modern war.

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