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Recent Examples of unromantic
The system is simple, if unromantic: One partner proposes through the app, and the other is sent a notification.
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Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
But engagement is often seen as a highly emotional and symbolic act and asking the recipient to sign a legal document in connection with receiving the ring may feel transactional or unromantic.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
There are some unromantic reasons why fall can smell so intoxicating.
—Lauren Mazzo, SELF, 8 Oct. 2024
Camille Peri’s engrossing A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson recounts in some detail the very unromantic odyssey that led Fanny to her meeting with Louis.
—Phyllis Rose, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2024
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Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
But engagement is often seen as a highly emotional and symbolic act and asking the recipient to sign a legal document in connection with receiving the ring may feel transactional or unromantic.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
There are some unromantic reasons why fall can smell so intoxicating.
—Lauren Mazzo, SELF, 8 Oct. 2024
Camille Peri’s engrossing A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson recounts in some detail the very unromantic odyssey that led Fanny to her meeting with Louis.
—Phyllis Rose, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unromantic
Adjective
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Overwhelmingly, their responses were unsentimental.—
Hannah Pittard,
People.com,
8 July 2025
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The national mindset is pragmatic, unsentimental, and profit-oriented.—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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Just as a logical gate in a regular computer changes bits from 0 to 1 to allow computation, quantum gates manipulate qubits.—
Ananya Palivela,
Scientific American,
30 Aug. 2025
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For Martin, the path from Turner to the cage is less a leap and more a logical next step.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Yet this promising start devolved into a prime example of the sort of cynical assholery that today would be called a hot take, or even clickbait.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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The second was even more cynical as it was designed to preserve the seats of all incumbents, not just Democrats, and succeeded in more than 99% of House elections.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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Similarly, product aesthetics create powerful first impressions that influence purchasing decisions through emotional connection rather than rational analysis.—
Roy Ward,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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To be clear: This is not how the United States—or any rational government, really—should be deciding on strategy.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
18 Aug. 2025
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Lots of presumably sensible and appropriate reasons to look at user prompts are readily justifiable.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Still, nothing had been done about the actual problem, making frustration among the majority of voters that wanted a sensible and humane human solution even greater.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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However, taxpayers who can’t get through on the phone in a reasonable time may get frustrated and hang up without a resolution.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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By any reasonable standard, the Republican Party, both in Connecticut and nationally, has morphed into a right-wing extremist party – there are few moderates left to be found – as Republicans actively work to concentrate political and economic power in the hands of America’s billionaire elite.—
Martin M. Looney,
Hartford Courant,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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However, both are smart, tough-minded and experienced players who understand their responsibilities and will take care of business on an every-down basis.—
Steve Silverman,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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At times, the Administration seemed to be testing how much destruction Americans would tolerate, if it was packaged as tough-minded business wisdom.—
Evan Osnos,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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After five hours of deliberation over two days, the jury found Kemper to be legally sane and convicted him on all eight counts of first-degree murder.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Previously sane human beings are getting crazier and crazier.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Unromantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unromantic. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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