as in unspectacular
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Recent Examples of undramatic
A lot of change is undramatic growth, transformation, or decay, or rather its timescale means the drama might not be perceptible to the impatient.
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Krista Stevens, Longreads, 24 Jan. 2024
If his family life was grounded and undramatic, his imaginative life was something like the opposite.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
Known for its delicate texture and undramatic look, this pie exudes old-school Southern class and charm.
—Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2023
Fukuyama looked to the future a little mournfully, seeing a gray, undramatic expanse—a tableau for technocrats.
—William MacAskill, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2022
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Krista Stevens, Longreads, 24 Jan. 2024
If his family life was grounded and undramatic, his imaginative life was something like the opposite.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
Known for its delicate texture and undramatic look, this pie exudes old-school Southern class and charm.
—Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2023
Fukuyama looked to the future a little mournfully, seeing a gray, undramatic expanse—a tableau for technocrats.
—William MacAskill, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undramatic
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In Denver, Hufanga will add quality depth to a safety group that was solid but unspectacular in 2024.—
Luca Evans,
The Denver Post,
10 Mar. 2025
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Employers added 151,000 jobs in February, a solid but unspectacular number, the Labor Department reported Friday, providing a snapshot of a labor market that has recovered from January’s bitter cold and has not yet felt the full brunt of the Department of Government Efficiency.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA TODAY,
7 Mar. 2025
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Will Warren and Carlos Carrasco are among the internal favorites to take the spot vacated by Cole, though the Yankees could explore the trade market or a slim, unexciting list of remaining free agents.—
Gary Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Mar. 2025
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Many economic forecasts show the U.S. adding somewhere around 150,000 jobs with a slight increase in the unemployment rate last month — a solid, if unexciting report.—
Sylvan Lane,
The Hill,
6 Mar. 2025
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Mainland China had a fairly uneventful day bouncing around the room with utilities underperforming.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Previous appointments were uneventful, and officials would typically issue a follow-up appointment.—
Hatzel Vela,
NBC news,
21 Mar. 2025
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But its most striking characteristic, now that the media is completely oversaturated with violent murders and courtroom dramas, is that De Lestrade’s work is so straightforward and unsensational.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
8 June 2018
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Robinson, whose credits include The L Word and True Blood, approaches the story in such a low-key, unsensational way that the trio's beyond-bohemian arrangement is barely eyebrow-raising.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
12 Oct. 2017
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Higher education advisor Dan Ulin of Elite Student Coach in Los Angeles, California says downsides of unrewarding advanced degrees can extend far beyond the potential for long-term student loan debt and being thrust into an industry with limited (or no) growth potential.—
Robert Farrington,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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The big problem is that social media is unrewarding.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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Many commenters on Korean Air’s social media profiles said the new livery is bland and uninteresting and lacks the sense of national identity that the older version had.—
Zach Wichter,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
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In a multiverse of new and often uninteresting heroes, Cox is a life raft.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
5 Mar. 2025
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Strict and unimaginative gender norms were alive and well, and Weight Watchers was for the ladies (calories, of course, have no gender.—
John DeVore,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2025
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These hotels are, at their worst, sites of literal death, and at best, gilded cages for the unimaginative.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
17 Feb. 2025
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Broberg’s heartbreaking overtime winner Some overtimes are boring, with teams methodically regrouping.—
Harman Dayal,
The Athletic,
21 Mar. 2025
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Transform boring tasks into challenges with stakes, rewards, and achievements.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Undramatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undramatic. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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