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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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The young Andrii’s first thought was this tedious job should to be done by a robot.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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But during a 2017 appearance at a conference in China, Cook expressed doubt about whether the U.S. labor pool had enough workers with the vocational skills required to do the painstaking and tedious work that Lutnick was discussing.—
Michael Liedtke,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2025
Adjective
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This is just stupid how successful this is, but that’s really underselling it.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
31 May 2025
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Camp, stupid, joyful—to both own and access—Labubu has taken over.—
Lara Johnson-Wheeler,
Vogue,
31 May 2025
Adjective
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Some people assume that longtime married couples are boring, but my husband has never bored me.—
Seija Rankin,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2025
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Spectators perceive tennis outfits as plain, boring, rigid or limited to a specific silhouette.—
Ruth Etiesit Samuel,
Essence,
2 June 2025
Adjective
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International students make up about 27% of the student body at the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
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Former New College student Katie Helms, 47, got emotional when remembering her old mentor.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
25 May 2025
Adjective
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Human judgment will still matter critically, but it will be applied selectively in moments of ambiguity or high risk, rather than wasted on the monotonous tasks that currently consume most of the working day.—
Adam Bowen,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Like you, or, sorry, like the woman in the book, the ordinary feels so uninspiring, so monotonous.—
Susan Choi,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
30 May 2025
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In the Colorado River Basin, April and May were very dry.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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Still, even if the growth is slower than in some North American leagues, European teams continue to appreciate.—
Justin Teitelbaum,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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The solution to getting those who may be slower to embrace AI isn’t to push them harder, but to coach them and consider their backgrounds.—
Greg Edwards,
The Conversation,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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The first act is genuinely atrocious, a mess of story threads revolving around an uninteresting villain in the AI Entity that feels far too downbeat and sad for this franchise.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
23 May 2025
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What remains consistent is the splendid topography of Frazier’s prose, and the sense throughout his work that there are, in fact, no uninteresting places, just uninteresting writers.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2025
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“Longsome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/longsome. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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