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Recent Examples of longsome
But his longsome speech also brimmed with movement love—and the companion call to culture-war arms.
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Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2021
Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for longsome
Adjective
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Ideally, containers should be within reach of your garden hose, which is less tedious than lugging heavy watering cans all over the place.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
25 Feb. 2025
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The big picture: Ad agencies can have a tedious and highly manual expense management process that's prone to human error.—
Lucinda Shen,
Axios,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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That would have been a stupid question just about anywhere else, but the exhibition was by Laura Owens, a painter with a penchant for trickery, and the venue was Matthew Marks Gallery in New York, whose press release for Owens’s latest outing offered little in the way of explanation.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
24 Feb. 2025
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Thank you Hallie for thinking of me and putting my name in your stupid brother's ear.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The whole thing also looks pretty—budget and midrange phones tend to be super boring, but the Pixel 8A has a smart design with a matte rear texture.—
Julian Chokkattu,
WIRED,
28 Feb. 2025
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Buck is a loquacious, glad-handing oaf who has a boring way with a witty story, and is marked for death.—
Fred Schruers,
IndieWire,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Every year in the US, there are approximately 35,000 ER visits due to unintentional medication overdoses among children under 5 years old.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN,
1 Mar. 2025
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The other part of him, the innie, is for all intents and purposes 2 1/2 years old.—
Gary Levin,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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People are less likely to feel threatened by a tool that tackles monotonous administrative tasks than one that drafts an entire document.—
Hunter Steele,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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My mornings began with a monotonous dread that would persist throughout the day.—
Charley Locke,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Here, the passage of time is measured in shifting light, the slow bend of jacaranda branches heavy with violet blooms, the way dry hills blush green after an elusive rain.—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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The water flowed into the dry Tulare lakebed and soaked into the ground.—
Ella Nilsen,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The 2024-25 Bruins are slow, short on skill, inconsistent on defense and diminished in net.—
Fluto Shinzawa,
The Athletic,
8 Mar. 2025
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In the men’s draw, Daniil Medvedev, the Russian powerhouse, has been crushing it on slow courts.—
David Hochman,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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For years, companies like Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott, and IHG primarily focused on consistent, but also largely uninteresting, hotels.—
Chris Dong,
AFAR Media,
13 Feb. 2025
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Activities were repetitive or uninteresting, new bosses were built around individual characters which was a poor format.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Longsome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/longsome. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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