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Recent Examples of unexciting
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Small market doesn’t mean unexciting.
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Harry Enten, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
Scientists have often regarded calls as unexciting and simple compared with birdsong.
—Sofia Marie Haley, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
Vodka is all-too-often written off as an unexciting category of spirit.
—Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Producers love an unexciting telecast, but audiences are hungry for the kind of raw emotion and drama that populates the films that win the awards.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
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Harry Enten, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
Scientists have often regarded calls as unexciting and simple compared with birdsong.
—Sofia Marie Haley, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
Vodka is all-too-often written off as an unexciting category of spirit.
—Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Producers love an unexciting telecast, but audiences are hungry for the kind of raw emotion and drama that populates the films that win the awards.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexciting
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Getty Images After finishing last year with an uninspiring 36-46 record, the Phoenix Suns traded Kevin Durant and agreed to a buyout with Bradley Beal.—
Mat Issa,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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But other than that, a very uninspiring and drab set.—
Curtis Silver,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The drama stars Cici Wang as Monkey, a backstage theater worker facing unemployment after years of unrewarding work.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 Aug. 2025
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These plants are often altogether unrewarding for pollinators, since the flowers no longer produce nectar or pollen.—
Claire Therese Hemingway,
The Conversation,
18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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That, and try to seem as uninteresting as possible.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
11 Aug. 2025
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The files, however, were a bust, consisting mostly of uninteresting or already public information.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
18 July 2025
Adjective
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The parasites get their names from the larvae, which look and act like screws, boring and twisting into their victim's flesh.—
Jon Brodkin,
ArsTechnica,
25 Aug. 2025
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In the early episodes, when everyone’s still getting to know each other, are the conversations boring?—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
24 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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On the road, the Murano sidesteps the insipid CVT vibe of the past.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Aug. 2025
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Callahan’s baritone is rich and full, but the rest of the instrumentation feels insipid.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
29 July 2025
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This, too, is where savagery lurks—in tedious, monotonous tasks.—
Seema Jilani
August 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Aug. 2025
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This kind of work can be monotonous and unfulfilling.—
Peter Bendor-Samuel,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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This discovery becomes a tear in the banal fabric of everyday life, in which Maria reluctantly assumes the triad of caretaker, undertaker and executor – faced with a series of subdued and, at times, perverse bureaucratic exchanges.—
Olivia Bennett,
Variety,
12 Aug. 2025
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In this scenario, the Kremlin could meet a moment where its resistance to the banal inconveniences of reality, and the economic hardship of its own people, turns toxic.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
7 Aug. 2025
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The new labels bring a fresh spin on tennis attire that had gone bland following the retirements of icons Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, and Serena Williams.—
Merlisa Lawrence Corbett,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Cantaloupes are packed not only with water but also supply a healthy dose of vitamins A and C.1 But biting into a bland, flavorless cantaloupe is no fun.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Unexciting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexciting. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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