as in uninspiring
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Recent Examples of unexciting
Then comes a highly unexciting B.B. Kahan, president of the Academy.
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Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
Economists were expecting Wednesday’s report to be fairly unexciting, with barely any change from December’s data.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
Performance looks unexciting and the range is more like EVs from four years ago, making this more of a city or suburban runaround with commuting capabilities, rather than the car for that family holiday road trip.
—James Morris, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
The camera angles were weird, the teleprompter seemed like it was broken, and sure, a lot of the banter was fun, but the choices for winners were rather straightforward and unexciting.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
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Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
Economists were expecting Wednesday’s report to be fairly unexciting, with barely any change from December’s data.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
Performance looks unexciting and the range is more like EVs from four years ago, making this more of a city or suburban runaround with commuting capabilities, rather than the car for that family holiday road trip.
—James Morris, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
The camera angles were weird, the teleprompter seemed like it was broken, and sure, a lot of the banter was fun, but the choices for winners were rather straightforward and unexciting.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexciting
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The Blue Jackets won the shot battle 19-14 through two periods, but Toronto seemed poised to earn a close, relatively uninspiring win, thanks to Anthony Stolarz holding his ground between the pipes and Nick Robertson coming up with two quality finishes.—
Nick Ashbourne,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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The soundtrack is largely untouched, which is a problem when some of the major themes are short and uninspiring to begin with.—
Josh Broadwell,
Rolling Stone,
18 Mar. 2025
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Higher education advisor Dan Ulin of Elite Student Coach in Los Angeles, California says downsides of unrewarding advanced degrees can extend far beyond the potential for long-term student loan debt and being thrust into an industry with limited (or no) growth potential.—
Robert Farrington,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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The big problem is that social media is unrewarding.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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With the exception of the two men who provide the film with its ridiculously unexciting love triangle, everyone in Alex’s orbit is one-dimensional and uninteresting.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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Many commenters on Korean Air’s social media profiles said the new livery is bland and uninteresting and lacks the sense of national identity that the older version had.—
Zach Wichter,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
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Anything that isn’t someone bleeding out is boring to them, that kind of thing.—
Maria Fontoura,
Rolling Stone,
5 Apr. 2025
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But here, it’s all viewed through a workplace-comedy format, which captures the kind of boring ordinariness of typical medical care while also getting at some of the big frustrations of understaffing.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
3 Apr. 2025
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Bored of an increasingly insipid Premier League season?—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Performances range from bad to worse (Jude Law as Captain Hook is permanently running on fumes), Neverland is a dreary landscape of muted greens and browns, and the story becomes an insipid take on an adventurous classic.—
Barry Levitt,
TIME,
21 Mar. 2025
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Historically, the condition is considered the result of monotonous, repetitive tasks like assembly-line jobs or positions in which employees feel undervalued or unrecognized for their work or that lack meaning, purpose and interest.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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High up on the fifth floor, the couple turned a monotonous 764-square-foot apartment into something that undeniably reflects their individual styles.—
Mailin Sophie Zieser,
Architectural Digest,
25 Mar. 2025
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The unfathomable is unsettling, and that makes the most banal thought a shelter.—
Yiyun Li,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2025
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What’s immediately striking is how quickly and economically its characters are established in medias res, through seemingly banal conversation and hints of individual personality just divergent enough to cause friction.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
9 Mar. 2025
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Then there are interviews, scoops, and other kinds of highly specific reporting; a reporter might labor for months to unearth new information, only for A.I. to hoover it up and fold it into some bland summary.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2025
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Gigantic and often bland, the squash filled our grocery carts and vexed our dull knives for too many years.—
Alex Beggs,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Unexciting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexciting. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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