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also anticlimactical
as in unimportant
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Recent Examples of anticlimactic
Not that Presence ultimately adds up to much — its reveal is anticlimactic — but the fun Soderbergh has toying with our expectations is contagious.
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Johnson, who led a Lions offense that scored 33.2 points per game to lead the NFL this past regular season, saw an anticlimactic end to a historic season in the team's Divisional Round loss to the Washington Commanders at home this past weekend.
—Scott Thompson, Fox News, 20 Jan. 2025
Mulligan brought out a comically large, 20-sided die to roll on the floor — and after an anticlimactic miss that the audience voted to be re-rolled — the heroes were triumphant and stunned the dancing dragon.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 26 Jan. 2025
Sure, there will always be a division race that goes to the wire no matter how many weeks are played but Week 18 was anticlimactic.
—Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2025
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Johnson, who led a Lions offense that scored 33.2 points per game to lead the NFL this past regular season, saw an anticlimactic end to a historic season in the team's Divisional Round loss to the Washington Commanders at home this past weekend.
—Scott Thompson, Fox News, 20 Jan. 2025
Mulligan brought out a comically large, 20-sided die to roll on the floor — and after an anticlimactic miss that the audience voted to be re-rolled — the heroes were triumphant and stunned the dancing dragon.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 26 Jan. 2025
Sure, there will always be a division race that goes to the wire no matter how many weeks are played but Week 18 was anticlimactic.
—Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anticlimactic
Adjective
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But that’s not because the work of the public sector itself is unimportant.—
Adam Chandler,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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Council President Joe LaCava defended the city’s focus on something so relatively unimportant compared to closing a $258 million deficit that is expected to require substantial budget cuts.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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So that seems to apply even to sports, something that seems kind of trivial.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
9 Feb. 2025
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Identifying whether a stock will rise or fall and when that move will happen are not trivial questions.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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What does that look like in what some would be considered as insignificant as a candle?—
Lisa Vernon Sparks,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Feb. 2025
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Screenings for unrelated conditions can pick up thyroid nodules that are technically cancerous but asymptomatic or clinically insignificant.—
Jenna Anderson,
Health,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Anticlimactic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anticlimactic. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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