as in slow
not spectacular or special
The team has had an unspectacular season. The company's stock has shown consistent if unspectacular growth.
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Recent Examples of unspectacular
Put this one down as a steady if unspectacular future financial investment.
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Peter Rutzler, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
Bellinger had a solid if unspectacular season after a strong bounce back in 2023.
—Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 10 Dec. 2024
Nuno’s 2019-20 Wolves, who finished seventh in the league with 59 points, were unspectacular but solid from corners.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
Against this backdrop—not to mention this government’s serviceable, if unspectacular, budgets to date—investors were primed for some good news.
—Milan Vaishnav, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2016
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Peter Rutzler, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
Bellinger had a solid if unspectacular season after a strong bounce back in 2023.
—Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 10 Dec. 2024
Nuno’s 2019-20 Wolves, who finished seventh in the league with 59 points, were unspectacular but solid from corners.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
Against this backdrop—not to mention this government’s serviceable, if unspectacular, budgets to date—investors were primed for some good news.
—Milan Vaishnav, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspectacular
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The commission’s slow start is illustrated by its handling of two complaints filed in May against state Rep. Emily O’Brien.Jacob Orledge, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2025
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Just unhitch the Flow, grab your iPad, and steer it like a giant, slow RC car into the perfect spot.Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2025
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The camera angles were weird, the teleprompter seemed like it was broken, and sure, a lot of the banter was fun, but the choices for winners were rather straightforward and unexciting.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
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His expeditions are, compared to Shackleton’s, unexciting stories.Martin Gutmann, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2025
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That's not to mention Congress' uneventful 30-minute certification of Trump's victory on Jan. 6 — a striking contrast with the unprecedented political violence of four years ago.Zachary Basu, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
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If only there was more to say about her otherwise uneventful tenure.Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2024
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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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The book will therefore appear January 14 (following a leak that rocked the publishing world), scarcely a month after Francis’s 88th birthday, under the appropriate if slightly unimaginative title Hope.airmail.news, airmail.news, 11 Jan. 2025
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From the interviewer’s perspective, a candidate with no questions can come across as disinterested, unprepared, or—worse—unimaginative.Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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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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“Unspectacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspectacular. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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