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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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Instead, the book is full of the prosaic events for which its author is known.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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Here, water transport assumes a form that is grandly ritualistic if decidedly prosaic.Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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Having different roles and environments keeps work fresh and engaging, helping reduce the risk of job burnout from monotonous routines.William Arruda, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Really, how has this once monotonous job-working elections become dangerous in recent months?Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
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Not only does the more-open nature of the PC lend itself better to powerful creation software, but typing thousands of lines of code instantly becomes exponentially less tedious with a keyboard than on a touch screen or using controllers.PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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For millennial and Gen Z workers aged 18 to 43, the process is so tedious that 32% would rather apply to a new job than select health insurance, according to a Justworks and Harris Poll survey.Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 5 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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But the color work on the series isn’t just about pulling off the tricks that every DP would like to make a TV show look a little more appealing — darkening uninteresting blank spaces within a frame, making the color consistent between shots, and smoothing out any variables in the lighting.Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 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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Lil Wayne is not tolerating spiritless crowds at his shows.Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
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There’s still so much of this country that is based on the boring parts of governance that the people who show up and speak out can affect.Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
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So, our chats about his vision, strategy, and leadership philosophy for the Ferretti Group in the global-hyper-niche-ultra-luxury-yacht building business are never boring.Bill Springer, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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But overall, the lack of differentiation can be wearisome.Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2024
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But the escalating conversations, often accompanied by astonishment, concerning women's looks, youth and ageing reflect a wearisome pattern deeply ingrained in both the entertainment industry and society as a whole — a pattern of entrenched ageism.Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 14 May 2024
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Mike’s kvetching gets tiresome, but the movie zooms along with whiplash speed.Will Leitch, Vulture, 14 June 2024
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At some point, my introvert ways will grow tiresome, even to me.Talib Babb, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
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“Prosy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosy. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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