as in boring
having nothing exciting, interesting, or unusual happening; not eventful
an uneventful vacation/day/life The flight home was uneventful.
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Recent Examples of uneventful
While the past several camps have featured a roster crunch in which big decisions must be made on which players to cut and which to keep, the weeks leading up to the 2024-25 campaign have been rather uneventful.
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Nick Crain, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Exciting first couple of innings, uneventful middle innings, interesting final couple of innings.
—Tommy Edman, professional ballplayer.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
The vast majority of Zelle activity is uneventful; of the $806 billion that flowed across the network last year, only $166 million in transactions was disputed as fraud by customers of JPMorgan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, the three biggest players on the platform.
—Hugh Son, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2024
His uneventful life is rocked by the disappearance of his identical twin brother James, a police detective.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Sep. 2024
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Nick Crain, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Exciting first couple of innings, uneventful middle innings, interesting final couple of innings.
—Tommy Edman, professional ballplayer.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
The vast majority of Zelle activity is uneventful; of the $806 billion that flowed across the network last year, only $166 million in transactions was disputed as fraud by customers of JPMorgan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, the three biggest players on the platform.
—Hugh Son, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2024
His uneventful life is rocked by the disappearance of his identical twin brother James, a police detective.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneventful
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Most of this long flashback segment is pretty boring, though.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
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Toyota and Honda have at times been called boring: Honda by its own engineers, Toyota more famously by a chairman descended from the company’s founder.Robert Ferris, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
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Similarly, listening as a member of a large audience or having to listen for a long time was also tiring.Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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Working while speaking was more annoying but less tiring than silence and noise.Dominique Fluker, Essence, 15 Oct. 2024
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This means my phone was limited to T-Mobile's slower 5G service, which explains the lower speeds.PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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It’s been a long, slow build for Annunen to become an NHL goalie, but getting to start six times in eight games for the Avs was a big step for him.Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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By contrast, the prospect of citizenships and alliances—and perhaps conquests or crusades—structured around the opinions, beliefs, and subjective identities of ordinary people in times of peace would require a new (or very old) conception of empire.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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One current method used for mosquito control is called the sterile insect technique, which works by releasing many sterile males to mate with females, who tend to mate with only one partner.Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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These tests require you to pee into a sterile cup so your healthcare provider can check for protein and waste products in your urine.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 19 Oct. 2024
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