as in slow
not spectacular or special
The team has had an unspectacular season. The company's stock has shown consistent if unspectacular growth.
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Recent Examples of unspectacular
On the football field, Madsen registered a solid if unspectacular season in 2024.
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Justin Williams, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
All that said, there were legitimate moments of glory — like when Tai turned on Scot and Jason — that elevated the proceedings and turned this season into a solid, if unspectacular, entry.
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—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Heading into Survivor Series, however, WWE’s booking has been unspectacular, and arguably the only truly intriguing match on the card is the WarGames match between the Original Bloodline and the new version of the faction, with CM Punk rounding out the former group’s five-man squad.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Rodgers’s play has been mostly adequate, if unspectacular.
—David Waldstein, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Justin Williams, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
All that said, there were legitimate moments of glory — like when Tai turned on Scot and Jason — that elevated the proceedings and turned this season into a solid, if unspectacular, entry.
35.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Heading into Survivor Series, however, WWE’s booking has been unspectacular, and arguably the only truly intriguing match on the card is the WarGames match between the Original Bloodline and the new version of the faction, with CM Punk rounding out the former group’s five-man squad.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Rodgers’s play has been mostly adequate, if unspectacular.
—David Waldstein, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspectacular
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After the fines in September, SpaceX sent a letter to Congress blasting AST for being too slow to keep up with the booming space industry.—
Heather Vogell,
ProPublica,
11 Feb. 2025
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Level 2 charging times with the Premium trim and its smaller 14.9 kWh battery are roughly the same thanks to a slower onboard charger (3 kW vs. 6 on the Ultimate).—
Tim Stevens,
Ars Technica,
11 Feb. 2025
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Economists were expecting Wednesday’s report to be fairly unexciting, with barely any change from December’s data.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN,
12 Feb. 2025
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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
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Though the yearlong standoff was uneventful, tensions led to Mormons attacking and killing more than 100 innocent people in a wagon train bound for California.—
David Wharton,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2025
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After our uneventful trip up the mountain, Lyman drove across the state line into New Mexico, a transition marked by a sudden proliferation of marijuana dispensaries.—
Rachel Monroe,
The New Yorker,
20 Dec. 2024
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With a choir and orchestra arranged by Axel Stordahl, the strings swell to heart-leaping proportions, while Sinatra keeps things sedate and sanguine with an undramatic vocal, which drips with a warm camaraderie.—
Emma Madden,
Vulture,
23 Dec. 2024
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On one hand, this was an extremely unsurprising and undramatic Bachelor franchise finale.—
Alice Burton,
Vulture,
14 Nov. 2024
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Such an unimaginative and bland group of coaches and programs.—
Antonio Morales,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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The book will therefore appear January 14 (following a leak that rocked the publishing world), scarcely a month after Francis’s 88th birthday, under the appropriate if slightly unimaginative title Hope.—
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airmail.news,
11 Jan. 2025
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Dallas owner Jerry Jones doesn’t strike confidence in his fan base, especially with this week’s uninspiring hire of Brian Schottenheimer.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
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Reinsdorf surely knew any negative fan reaction the Bulls would receive for an uninspiring haul for LaVine would pale in comparison with the pounding the Mavericks were taking for dealing Dončić in his prime.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
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