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Recent Examples of unglamorous
Behind every overnight success story is a gritty, often unglamorous reality.
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Melissa Houston, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
Achieving economic growth will mean enacting a long, varied, and often unglamorous list of reforms—including cutting red tape and boosting investment in clean energy and other green infrastructure.
—Luis Alberto Moreno, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
Not bad for a show that was almost militantly unglamorous.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Yet Afghanistan needs money for the unglamorous and tiresome work of training bureaucrats, which is the work that might make the largest difference in Kabul’s governance and its legitimacy.
—Paul D. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2014
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Melissa Houston, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
Achieving economic growth will mean enacting a long, varied, and often unglamorous list of reforms—including cutting red tape and boosting investment in clean energy and other green infrastructure.
—Luis Alberto Moreno, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
Not bad for a show that was almost militantly unglamorous.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Yet Afghanistan needs money for the unglamorous and tiresome work of training bureaucrats, which is the work that might make the largest difference in Kabul’s governance and its legitimacy.
—Paul D. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2014
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“Unglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unglamorous. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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