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Recent Examples of undistinguished
Request Reprint Permissions Download Article After serving a brief, undistinguished term as Japan’s prime minister in 2006–7, Shinzo Abe seemed destined for the political sidelines.
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Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2013
But Horizon—while being at least somewhat culturally sensitive, handsome to look at, and reasonably engaging—still comes off as curiously undistinguished.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 May 2024
For the most part, though, his record in getting laws enacted is undistinguished.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
From these undistinguished origins arose Garner the gourmand.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
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Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2013
But Horizon—while being at least somewhat culturally sensitive, handsome to look at, and reasonably engaging—still comes off as curiously undistinguished.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 May 2024
For the most part, though, his record in getting laws enacted is undistinguished.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
From these undistinguished origins arose Garner the gourmand.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
See all Example Sentences for undistinguished
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undistinguished
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For a guy into complicated killing rituals, Art sure does kill himself in an unremarkable fashion by putting the gun in his mouth and pulling the trigger.Barry Levitt, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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Driven by an unrelenting collapse in fertility, family structures and living arrangements heretofore imagined only in science fiction novels will become commonplace, unremarkable features of everyday life.Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
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Such peculiarity encourages reconsideration of this otherwise unexceptional comedy.Armond White, National Review, 23 Oct. 2024
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Throw tons of strikes while being solid if unexceptional in other key areas.Tony Blengino, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Benjamin Deneen, the paper’s lead author, tells Popular Science that in the early days of neuroscience, research tended to focus on neurons, treating other cells as relatively unimportant support structures.Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
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On his New Heights podcast last month, Jason Kelce branded the football position unimportant.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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The cumulative effects over at least five days or more result in a net sleep loss that is not insignificant.Lieke ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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This may seem like an insignificant development, or a minor change for the better.Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Undistinguished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undistinguished. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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