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Recent Examples of prosy
By the start of the 20th century, instead of offering a few prosy sentences that gestured vaguely toward ingredient amounts, American recipes increasingly began with a list of ingredients in precise, numerical quantities: teaspoons, ounces, cups.
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Helen Zoe Veit, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
Helen Zoe Veit, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prosy
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More prosaic solutions to the puzzle have also been floated over the years.Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
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Another 243 were recommended for closure as of June, also resolved to be prosaic objects.Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Used appropriately, these features can make your presentation dynamic and keep it from feeling monotonous and boring.William Arruda, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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This oversized pullover has large horizontal stripes that break up the often monotonous style of a traditional knit sweater.Michelle Rostamian, People.com, 14 Oct. 2024
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Without the proper tools, keeping your floors in tip-top shape can be a tedious affair, especially for pet owners.Maggie Horton, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
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Though for many people shopping can be relatively painless (depending on how picky your tastes are), for those who fall outside of the typical industry sizing, the process can be a tedious slog or even painful.Mikelle Street, Them, 26 Nov. 2024
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At conventions, she was relegated to uninteresting panels.Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
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Even a feature-length version of this plot would likely struggle with its lack of ideas, but 10 half-hour episodes feel punishing, well before a finale that offers an uninteresting explanation of the main mystery, and can’t even be bothered to resolve several other running plot threads.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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Dance sections lacked charm; lyric passages were spiritless; the klezmer episodes in the third movement were strictly goyish.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Yet the club dropped the contest in spiritless fashion, 6-2.Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
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But to play to that dichotomy is a tightrope walk: lean too far one way and Indy becomes boring, either as too normal or a superhero.Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024
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Eggnog Eggnog is a hard sell because most people have only had the bad kind, those boring and occasionally gross cartons that line the dairy section of the supermarket every December.Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 9 Dec. 2024
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The slow, wearisome trudge towards Everton’s new dawn continues.Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
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Every supernatural series, from Midnight Mass to Yellowjackets, needs a character resistant to the show’s inner eeriness to deliver persistent conflict, and Eion Bailey and his great head of hair played amusement-park engineer Jim with the exact right amount of wearisome square-mindedness.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
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Make Listening a Game Your child spends a significant portion of their day being talked to—and that is likely tiresome for them.Jeannette Moninger, Parents, 3 Dec. 2024
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KitchenAid 9-Speed Digital Hand Mixer with Turbo Beater II Stirring can be tiresome, especially when there’s large amounts or chunky ingredients.Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Prosy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosy. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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