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as in unimportant
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Recent Examples of anticlimactic
The scene was anticlimactic: After all that, the troupe simply walked up the gangplank, swiped their cards, and came aboard.
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Bridget Read, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2024
The oversized lapel proved anticlimactic, revealing a lowly white tee.
—Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2024
The Biden administration walked away from two mass student loan forgiveness plans on Friday, marking an anticlimactic end to the efforts to enact broad student debt relief.
—Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
The bold assertions of a former president at a Southern Baptist Convention seminary that the institution disparagingly made statements about financial mismanagement ended with an anticlimactic, $0 legal settlement following new revelations that emerged in discovery.
—Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for anticlimactic 
Bridget Read, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2024
The oversized lapel proved anticlimactic, revealing a lowly white tee.
—Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2024
The Biden administration walked away from two mass student loan forgiveness plans on Friday, marking an anticlimactic end to the efforts to enact broad student debt relief.
—Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
The bold assertions of a former president at a Southern Baptist Convention seminary that the institution disparagingly made statements about financial mismanagement ended with an anticlimactic, $0 legal settlement following new revelations that emerged in discovery.
—Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for anticlimactic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anticlimactic
Adjective
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Demonizing the delta smelt was — and is — a way to make facile points to uninformed voters by suggesting that the interests of what appears to be an unimportant fish are somehow elevated above those of human residents.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2025
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Again, there’s a moon get-out clause here; our natural satellite is so bright that the size of the objective lens is less unimportant.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This is where seemingly trivial activities can make a big difference.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Yes, there are negative side effects, but Shields credits her maturing body with helping to solidify her resolve, giving her a new perspective on time management and giving her the confidence to ignore trivial matters.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This was something Flora thought about often—the necklace wearing the woman, like the necklace was a symbiotic creature, a barnacle upon a whale, a relatively insignificant thing that attached itself to something greater.—
Sheila Heti,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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But the term feels insignificant in the aftermath of the Eras Tour.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
17 Dec. 2024
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“Anticlimactic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anticlimactic. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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