unexceptional

ˌən-ik-ˈsep-sh(ə-)nəl

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of unexceptional The movie offers phantasmagorical twists on unexceptional banalities. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025 Or an unexceptional finance guy who is nevertheless built like a famous Hemsworth brother. Amanda Hess, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025 In a statement on Wednesday, Justice Alito said the call was an unexceptional endorsement of a talented clerk. Adam Liptak, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025 Thai immigration officials said visitor numbers from Myanmar were unexceptional. Jintamas Saksornchai, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unexceptional
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexceptional
Adjective
  • This means that some particles will decay in the normal world while their counterparts in the mirror would not.
    Zack Savitsky, Wired News, 22 June 2025
  • While the district has enough supply on hand for the nearly 200,000 students who attend district schools, many of those computers are out of warranty and past their normal lifespan, the district’s technology chief told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in an interview last month.
    Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • But then again … Look one more time at the last entry in the catalog of ordinary human stuff that the turtle’s shell is compared to: pottery.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 13 June 2025
  • JetBlue Airways flight 312 arrived from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport around 11:55 a.m. in what passengers described as an ordinary landing.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • This is an excellent day for business and commercial ventures, because your objectives and goals are clearer to you than usual.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 22 June 2025
  • Lawmakers’ home addresses have already been removed from the Minnesota Legislature’s website, and the Capitol saw a larger security presence than usual this week.
    Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • Above average temperatures will continue this weekend.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 15 June 2025
  • Photo-illustration by Newsweek/Getty Clerc said that raising the FRA could slash average lifetime benefits by nearly 20 percent, according to research from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 June 2025
Adjective
  • Still, experts widely agree that the attack shares several characteristics typical of ransomware events, including a full system shutdown, containment procedures and prolonged disruption.
    Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • As is typical, the children were shot from behind, but that could change, as Platell noted.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • This was commonplace for the time, but on this particular evening, the patrons of the bar fought back, starting the Stonewall Riots, which went on for days.
    Andrea Wurzburger, People.com, 17 June 2025
  • As a result, many of today’s recent college graduates seem to espouse an ideological worldview where antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment have now become commonplace.
    Ron Morganstern, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Warriors have pushed him to be a beast on the glass, but historically, players rarely change their stripes in this realm, and his rebound rate has stayed right around 10.0 percent his whole career — fine for a combo forward but unremarkable.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • Reading was an unremarkable activity, essentially unchanged since the advent of the modern publishing industry, in the nineteenth century.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 17 June 2025

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“Unexceptional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexceptional. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.

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