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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
Adjective
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But with users, one unglamorous application of Clay’s software was resonating above all: go-to-market efforts, centered mostly on the spreadsheet part.—
Alex Konrad,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Funding an unglamorous job Hyperion has been in operation since 1925, and underwent its last major upgrade in the 1990s.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Dec. 2024
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But if Naples’s gaudy decadence is hot on social media, the city is also experiencing a much more unromantic, enduring and crude degradation that is engulfing the youth from its poorer quarters.—
Gianni Cipriano,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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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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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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The sense of disharmony is immediate: a familiar scene of youth and learning is grimly debased into one of peril.—
Kyle Chayka,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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And after one stop in Baltimore, that tour returns to its familiar home at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Nonglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonglamorous. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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