as in boring
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Harris, the narrator’s husband: Paul Mescal or Nick Kroll Can Ireland's sexiest chain-wearer reinvent himself as a boring straight guy who's not entirely fulfilling his wife?—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025 -
From awful ads to a divisive halftime show to a boring game, 10 things to forget.—
Brad Biggs,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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Casting for Battlefield Surya admitted that casting for This City is a Battlefield was a long and tedious process.—
Sara Merican,
Deadline,
8 Feb. 2025
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But even after that planeload arrived at El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, the Colombian capital, on Tuesday, passengers were caught up in long and tedious inspections at airports in Florida.—
Simón Posada,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2025
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That was a core part of the original series and the sibling rivalry stuff can get tiresome pretty quickly.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2024
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Loud, tiresome and half-baked, the off-kilter hilarity and attempts at sentimentality aren’t given much clearance to land, causing the emotional overtones to feel unearned.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
29 Jan. 2025
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Sam Nivola as Lochlan Ratliff: The high school senior, Timothy and Victoria's youngest, is pulled between following the life path of his older sister and brother while deciding his major life decision: Whether to go to Duke or the University of North Carolina.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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Anything older than 2019 or 2020 releases might not be worth it unless the price is shockingly low.—
Boutayna Chokrane,
WIRED,
17 Feb. 2025
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This Korean serum staple in Soko Glam Founder Charlotte Cho’s skin-care routine stacks several sizes of hyaluronic acid with moisture-locking panthenol and barrier-strengthening ceramides to rescue dry skin from flakiness.—
Devon Abelman,
Allure,
11 Feb. 2025
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One of his images features a mostly dry riverbed, its sand mysteriously streaked.—
Alex Cuadros,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2025
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Android 15’s second beta release has other notable additions today that didn’t make it to the relatively pedestrian first release.—
Umar Shakir,
The Verge,
15 May 2024
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Yet New England's 14-2 record and a defense that allowed the league's fewest points were not necessarily indicative of true dominance, as the team displayed a pattern of frequently doing just enough to win, the average margin of victory a fairly pedestrian 10.3 points.—
Nate Davis,
USA TODAY,
11 Jan. 2024
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What happens to the victims is swept under the rug, but the number of traumatized, law abiding citizens paying a dear price now under that rug is becoming a ponderous digit.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Jan. 2025
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Both seasons tackle a wide range of pressing social issues (inequality of wealth, prejudice, capitalism, consumerism) without being ponderous.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
26 Dec. 2024
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That might be related to something as prosaic as housing costs, which have driven many people to move in with their parents—and away from where their friends live.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2025
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There are more prosaic kinds of retaliation: having difficulty renewing passports, getting audited by the IRS and losing federal pensions.—
Byron Tau,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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