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Recent Examples of nonglamorous
Her essay about the real, nonglamorous work of farming is a must-read for anyone who has romanticized the pursuit.
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SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2019
SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonglamorous
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Tim Cook’s path to becoming Apple’s CEO started with an unglamorous job: waking up at 3 a.m. to deliver newspapers.Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
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One of the world’s most consumed, most convenient, and least wasteful types of dairy, in contrast, occupies a space about the size of a beach cooler, on the bottom shelf in an unglamorous and highly missable corner of aisle six.Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
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The system is simple, if unromantic: One partner proposes through the app, and the other is sent a notification.Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
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But engagement is often seen as a highly emotional and symbolic act and asking the recipient to sign a legal document in connection with receiving the ring may feel transactional or unromantic.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Even on a dusty tarmac with the car riding on decidedly unexotic Michelin Pilot Sport 4S summer tires (the same rubber that was used to set its official 0–60 and quarter-mile times), the Nevera leapt off the line without a hint of wheelspin.Bradley Iger, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2022
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Benefit’s popular cherry-red Benetint started life in 1976 as a nipple stain made for exotic dancers out of rose petals and carmine and later commercialized for the unexotic rest of us.Linda Wells, Town & Country, 16 Apr. 2021
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These techniques should be familiar to Photoshop users.PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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The setup and relationship dynamics are familiar, but what sets this story apart is that Ranma is a boy whose body turns into a girl’s when doused with cold water because of a mishap during a training trip with his father (hot water turns him back).Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Nonglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonglamorous. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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