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pedestrian

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adjective

as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest a TV detective show filled with pedestrian plots stolen from older and better series

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Recent Examples of pedestrian
Noun
Police are still looking for the driver who allegedly rammed into a group of cyclists handing out immigration red cards to pedestrians last month in Boyle Heights before fleeing the scene. Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2025 The pedestrian was estimated to be about 60 years old. Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
Elsewhere, deluxe yellow gold chains, with and without diamonds, were ubiquitous, but hardly pedestrian. Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 15 June 2023 Almost exactly 24 hours after the 2016 CZ31 event, at 7:37 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 30, the much larger 2013 CU83 asteroid, this one as big as 1,050 feet across, will swing by Earth at a relatively pedestrian 13,100 miles per hour, at over 3 million miles away. Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2022 See All Example Sentences for pedestrian
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pedestrian
Noun
  • Start between 8:30-9:15 a.m. March 29, Winter Park Amtrak Station Parking Lot, 148 W. Morse Blvd., Winter Park, $4 per person, free for walkers ages 12 or younger who do not want credit, 407-491-1002, midfloridamilers.org. Plant Clinic: Bring your plants and ask questions.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
  • From there, the road arises under the footsteps of the walker.
    Oleg Sadikov, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Literature that doesn’t contain its own version of this deal—literature that tries to freeze-frame reality instead of transmuting it—is often boring, even alienating.
    Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Then Saturday, Columbus sputtered to a disappointing (and boring) scoreless draw at home against the Houston Dynamo, one of the weakest MLS teams.
    Andrew King, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Plan For Possible Delays: Given the potential for slower processing, apply well before needing benefits.
    Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Don’t confuse grilling with smoking though—the basic difference is smoking is a slow process where food is cooked at low temperatures for a long period while grilling requires high heat applied over a short burst of time.
    Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • When Luca pulls a gun on him, ordering him to drive, Spencer quickly disarms him and then slaps him for the stupid move.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Indexing gives you a better chance to ‘be less stupid.’ — Investment advisor Barry Ritholtz Those dismal statistics come to us via the latest annual SPIVA scorecard (the acronym stands for Standard and Poor’s Index vs. Active).
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Follow the money: The stock market, for one, is tiring of such shenanigans.
    Felix Salmon, Axios, 7 Mar. 2025
  • In Aurora, voters seem to be tiring of two-term incumbent Republican Richard Irvin, who was the top vote getter but got just 38%.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Americans have grown weary; not just of the news, but also of the entire miserable chore of learning about it.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
  • That reputation began in 70 C.E. when the mineral springs were directed into a massive bathhouse for weary Roman soldiers.
    Cat Sposato, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The fight was very dull and Ankalaev most held his way to the victory.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Without their alternate selves to tug at them, these characters would be dull, dull, dull.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were the only players to hit that mark at 28 years old.
    Bobby Krivitsky, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Every year in the US, there are approximately 35,000 ER visits due to unintentional medication overdoses among children under 5 years old.
    Katia Hetter, CNN, 1 Mar. 2025

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“Pedestrian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pedestrian. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.

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