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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
Adjective
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That might be related to something as prosaic as housing costs, which have driven many people to move in with their parents—and away from where their friends live.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2025
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There are more prosaic kinds of retaliation: having difficulty renewing passports, getting audited by the IRS and losing federal pensions.—
Byron Tau,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Much of our modern architecture is monotonous, repetitive and without character.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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What seemed like innovative movement mechanics in 3D is stifled by repetitive, confusing level design with its monotonous mazes.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Casting for Battlefield Surya admitted that casting for This City is a Battlefield was a long and tedious process.—
Sara Merican,
Deadline,
8 Feb. 2025
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But even after that planeload arrived at El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, the Colombian capital, on Tuesday, passengers were caught up in long and tedious inspections at airports in Florida.—
Simón Posada,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Manager Gareth Southgate has been under pressure for the English being defensive and mostly uninteresting to watch, but the results have been good enough.—
Dan Santaromita,
The Athletic,
10 July 2024
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The path that was designed for her was uninteresting to her.—
Adam Moss,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Harris, the narrator’s husband: Paul Mescal or Nick Kroll Can Ireland's sexiest chain-wearer reinvent himself as a boring straight guy who's not entirely fulfilling his wife?—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
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From awful ads to a divisive halftime show to a boring game, 10 things to forget.—
Brad Biggs,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Plus, a tiny bathroom with a lukewarm shower and scratchy towels can make even the best hotels feel wearisome rather than wonderful.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Jan. 2025
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The hybrid experience has grown wearisome since the binge-Zoom years of the pandemic.—
Steve Tengler,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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That was a core part of the original series and the sibling rivalry stuff can get tiresome pretty quickly.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2024
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Loud, tiresome and half-baked, the off-kilter hilarity and attempts at sentimentality aren’t given much clearance to land, causing the emotional overtones to feel unearned.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Prosy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosy. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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