tire of
phrasal verb
tired of; tiring of; tires of
: to become bored by (something) : to stop being interested in (something)
He soon tired of doing the same work every day.
She never tires of listening to music.
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Abigail Jackson Surely, Kate will never tire of the kitchen, which is completely white from the slab-front cabinetry to the quartz counters and the veiny marble backsplash.
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Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2024
As sports ad sales execs never tire of reminding us, there’s no evidence that any booth combination since the halcyon days of Pat Summerall-John Madden has had a material impact on the size of the NFL TV audience.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 6 Sep. 2024
To put it simply, fans tire of watching conflict all the time and want to see the women come back together by the end of the season.
—Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024
Melton has seen cases in which property owners have smashed a tenant’s electrical box with a sledgehammer, removed a home’s front door with a circular saw, and placed a two-by-four full of nails across a renter’s driveway to pop the tires of the family car.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 11 July 2024
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Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2024
As sports ad sales execs never tire of reminding us, there’s no evidence that any booth combination since the halcyon days of Pat Summerall-John Madden has had a material impact on the size of the NFL TV audience.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 6 Sep. 2024
To put it simply, fans tire of watching conflict all the time and want to see the women come back together by the end of the season.
—Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024
Melton has seen cases in which property owners have smashed a tenant’s electrical box with a sledgehammer, removed a home’s front door with a circular saw, and placed a two-by-four full of nails across a renter’s driveway to pop the tires of the family car.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 11 July 2024
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“Tire of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tire%20of. Accessed 21 Sep. 2024.
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