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Recent Examples of lackluster
Adjective
The ride-hailing app has surged about 9% already in 2025, despite a lackluster performance in 2024 that saw shares end 2% lower. Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025 The 49ers hired Schneider, 53, in 2022 after five largely lackluster years with Richard Hightower running their special teams. Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025 Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has attributed the back-to-back lackluster performances in part to Butler's two-week absence due to an illness. Astha Rajvanshi, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2025 This team was handicapped by lackluster play from the offensive line most of this season. Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 4 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for lackluster 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lackluster
Adjective
  • On the thirteenth-century tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine, she is shown wide awake and reading, while her dull and kingly husband sleeps for all eternity.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • If your hair is dull and prone to breakage, this serum is packed with gluco-peptides and wheat protein to help restore elasticity and strengthening the cuticle.
    Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • As with most origin stories of football clubs that are a century and a half old, the truth of how Nottingham Forest came into being is slightly murky.
    Nick Miller, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
  • This six-episode Netflix series is taking on the murky world of health influencer culture—and what happened when a certain real-life influencer’s brand was built on a lie.
    Charley Ross, Glamour, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The Hughes Fire broke out in the late morning and within hours charred more than 15 square miles of trees and brush, sending up plumes of dark smoke near Lake Castaic, a popular recreation area about 40 miles from the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires that are burning for a third week.
    Marcio Jose Sanchez, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The popular hangout also specializes in dark lagers and hoppy IPAs.
    Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The somber music should have been my first clue, but I was too wrapped up in the euphoria of Jane soon realizing that someone valued her life enough to save her from certain death.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
  • When a photographer suggests that the family pose with a somber demeanor for a shot that will be featured in an article about Rubens’ disappearance, Eunice refuses, instructing her children to smile broadly.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Without a solid marketing strategy, even the best products risk fading into obscurity.
    Karan Sharma, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Some hardly get off the ground, while others raise money at lofty valuations before vanishing into obscurity.
    Jon Fortt,Paige Tortorelli, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025

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