What does 「予定調和」 mean? Not that stuff about Leibniz, but in daily chatter.
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「予定調和」 usage in casual speech
I think very few Japanese people recognize that 予定調和 is from Leibniz (I didn't
know that). When this appears in daily conversations, it means "safe but
expected result", "without surprise/trouble", "never changing", "repeated many
times", "according to the scenario", etc.

Typically this is used for long-running TV series like サザエさん, where characters
never get old for decades.

It may have some negative nuance. If you see 「国際会議は予定調和で終わった」 in a newspaper,
it probably implies the meeting was boring and unimportant.
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