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Recent Examples of unsensational
But its most striking characteristic, now that the media is completely oversaturated with violent murders and courtroom dramas, is that De Lestrade’s work is so straightforward and unsensational.
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Vogue, 8 June 2018
Robinson, whose credits include The L Word and True Blood, approaches the story in such a low-key, unsensational way that the trio's beyond-bohemian arrangement is barely eyebrow-raising.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Oct. 2017
Vogue, 8 June 2018
Robinson, whose credits include The L Word and True Blood, approaches the story in such a low-key, unsensational way that the trio's beyond-bohemian arrangement is barely eyebrow-raising.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsensational
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With a choir and orchestra arranged by Axel Stordahl, the strings swell to heart-leaping proportions, while Sinatra keeps things sedate and sanguine with an undramatic vocal, which drips with a warm camaraderie.—
Emma Madden,
Vulture,
23 Dec. 2024
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On one hand, this was an extremely unsurprising and undramatic Bachelor franchise finale.—
Alice Burton,
Vulture,
14 Nov. 2024
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Will Warren and Carlos Carrasco are among the internal favorites to take the spot vacated by Cole, though the Yankees could explore the trade market or a slim, unexciting list of remaining free agents.—
Gary Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Mar. 2025
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Many economic forecasts show the U.S. adding somewhere around 150,000 jobs with a slight increase in the unemployment rate last month — a solid, if unexciting report.—
Sylvan Lane,
The Hill,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In Denver, Hufanga will add quality depth to a safety group that was solid but unspectacular in 2024.—
Luca Evans,
The Denver Post,
10 Mar. 2025
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Employers added 151,000 jobs in February, a solid but unspectacular number, the Labor Department reported Friday, providing a snapshot of a labor market that has recovered from January’s bitter cold and has not yet felt the full brunt of the Department of Government Efficiency.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA TODAY,
7 Mar. 2025
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Mainland China had a fairly uneventful day bouncing around the room with utilities underperforming.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Previous appointments were uneventful, and officials would typically issue a follow-up appointment.—
Hatzel Vela,
NBC news,
21 Mar. 2025
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In this world, the severance procedure literally splits the mind into work and non-work compartments, resulting in employees who live dual existences: one governed by the sterile demands of corporate productivity and the other shrouded in personal mystery.—
Benjamin Laker,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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This is a sterile, forgettable little movie that has quickly come to function more as a time capsule than a salient bit of commentary, but there’s something valuable about the sobriety of its perspective.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Strict and unimaginative gender norms were alive and well, and Weight Watchers was for the ladies (calories, of course, have no gender.—
John DeVore,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2025
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These hotels are, at their worst, sites of literal death, and at best, gilded cages for the unimaginative.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
17 Feb. 2025
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Many commenters on Korean Air’s social media profiles said the new livery is bland and uninteresting and lacks the sense of national identity that the older version had.—
Zach Wichter,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
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In a multiverse of new and often uninteresting heroes, Cox is a life raft.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
5 Mar. 2025
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Higher education advisor Dan Ulin of Elite Student Coach in Los Angeles, California says downsides of unrewarding advanced degrees can extend far beyond the potential for long-term student loan debt and being thrust into an industry with limited (or no) growth potential.—
Robert Farrington,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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The big problem is that social media is unrewarding.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Unsensational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsensational. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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