undistinguished

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Recent Examples of undistinguished Born into undistinguished families, this cartoonishly ambitious couple hustled to make George a titan of industry. Judy Berman, Time, 20 June 2025 The project came into existence from the vapors at the end of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s undistinguished seven years in office. John Seiler, Oc Register, 31 May 2025 The emergence of Ayari has been a surprise following undistinguished loan spells in the Championship with Coventry City and Blackburn Rovers last season. Andy Naylor, New York Times, 17 May 2025 The United States has a long and undistinguished history of playing into the North’s game plan. Sung-Yoon Lee, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2010 See All Example Sentences for undistinguished
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undistinguished
Adjective
  • The brief and unremarkable tenure of France’s prime minister has come crashing to an end.
    Cole Stangler, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Its exterior is unremarkable, tucked into a small shopping center in the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and Fair Oaks Boulevard.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Aaron Rodgers has plenty to prove heading into the Pittsburgh Steelers' season opener after a rather unexceptional 2024 from both a team and an individual perspective.
    Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The kitchen is … perfectly unexceptional and very studio size.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 28 July 2025
Adjective
  • After Princeton and military service, he was sent to the Paris bureau, where his scoops and reviews forced designers to alter their view of Women’s Wear Daily as unimportant.
    James Fallon, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Those tests that pick up most cancers tend to pick up other unimportant things as well — and those screening tests that are limited to discovering cancer often miss many people with the disease.
    Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That attention to detail — the belief that no detail is insignificant — is responsible for the career of the most famous man in football.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
  • During the 1980s, mainframe engineers considered personal computers to be insignificant devices.
    Sadhasivam Mohanadas, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Undistinguished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undistinguished. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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