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Recent Examples of unexciting
Yet the performance on Friday tended bland: lovely and unexciting.
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Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
He’s been with the A’s since Jed Lowrie led the team in WAR (2017), and he’s developed into a reliable if unexciting innings eater for a team that’s really needed one over the last two seasons.
—Kaitlyn McGrath, The Athletic, 16 Apr. 2024
David, a husband and father, holds down an unexciting but lucrative tech job.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
The variety and talk spaces are, to put it frankly, some of the most stale and unexciting parts of the TV landscape.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 July 2024
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Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
He’s been with the A’s since Jed Lowrie led the team in WAR (2017), and he’s developed into a reliable if unexciting innings eater for a team that’s really needed one over the last two seasons.
—Kaitlyn McGrath, The Athletic, 16 Apr. 2024
David, a husband and father, holds down an unexciting but lucrative tech job.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
The variety and talk spaces are, to put it frankly, some of the most stale and unexciting parts of the TV landscape.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 July 2024
See all Example Sentences for unexciting
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexciting
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After two strong years in 2023 and 2024, risk increases for an uninspiring 2025.Michael Santoli, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2025
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Imagine how much value creation is left on the table when summing the contributions from so many uninspiring efforts. Combating a Quitters' Day Culture Undoubtedly, leaders strongly influence whether a quitter's day culture emerges.Nate Bennett, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Automation enables human workers to opt out of repetitive tasks that are physically taxing but otherwise unrewarding.Massimo Bizzi, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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The 10 wave playlist mode is boring, short and unrewarding.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Manager Gareth Southgate has been under pressure for the English being defensive and mostly uninteresting to watch, but the results have been good enough.Dan Santaromita, The Athletic, 10 July 2024
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The path that was designed for her was uninteresting to her.Adam Moss, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
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News to Know Disney buys Fubo On its face, the move might sound like a boring press release.Chris Branch, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
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Covering the entertainment business is never boring, and 2025 is already shaping up to be another banger as business models that have been around for decades continue to evolve, erode and unravel.Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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At the far extreme, there is the insipid libertarianism of Ron Paul, the former Texas representative, who has claimed that Marine detachments guarding U.S. embassies count as examples of military overstretch.Bret Stephens, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2013
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The blandly positive lyrics seemed even more insipid amid all the bedroom jams.Eric Webb, Austin American-Statesman, 1 June 2024
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An monotonous mix of ideas As an autonomous figure, the Guardian of Peace is quite independent on the battlefield compared to previous entries.Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
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Despite what Russian President Vladimir Putin may tell the Russian public during his monotonous press conferences and New Years Day speeches, everything isn't going well in the motherland.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
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Barry builds a believable sci-fi world—even with its pseudo-fantastical powers—out of the most familiar and banal building blocks, taking the stakes of linguistic misuse to apocalyptic heights.Tajja Isen, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2024
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Generally, the drama does spectacularly well with abiding by a primal sense of magical realism — the finding of wonderment in the banal and the insertion of banality into the wondrous.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
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These are easy ways to spruce up otherwise bland statements.Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
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Signs Your Salt Might Be Going Bad Salt is the invisible hero of the kitchen, often making the difference between a winning dish and a bland one.Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Unexciting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexciting. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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