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Recent Examples of undistinguished
In fact, all the streets in the song are kind of undistinguished.
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Steve Baltin, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
The book follows the life of a Midwestern farm boy who becomes an undistinguished professor of literature.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
The two allies must realize that Pyongyang’s next missile or nuclear test is not another blip in the long and undistinguished history of managing the status quo in the Korean peninsula.
—Sung-Yoon Lee, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2015
If the lakes form a network of rest areas along a vast migration route, the undistinguished flies stock the shelves, refueling birds on their journeys halfway across the world.
—Daniel Rothberg, Vox, 1 Oct. 2024
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Steve Baltin, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
The book follows the life of a Midwestern farm boy who becomes an undistinguished professor of literature.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
The two allies must realize that Pyongyang’s next missile or nuclear test is not another blip in the long and undistinguished history of managing the status quo in the Korean peninsula.
—Sung-Yoon Lee, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2015
If the lakes form a network of rest areas along a vast migration route, the undistinguished flies stock the shelves, refueling birds on their journeys halfway across the world.
—Daniel Rothberg, Vox, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undistinguished
Adjective
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Some of today's most popular smartphones have almost reached the point of anti-design—flat, unremarkable bodies that are intended to be covered up with a case.—
Ryan Whitwam,
Ars Technica,
24 Feb. 2025
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These sentences would be unremarkable in the abstract—say, in a constitutional-law lesson.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
The New Yorker,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The movie offers phantasmagorical twists on unexceptional banalities.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2025
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Or an unexceptional finance guy who is nevertheless built like a famous Hemsworth brother.—
Amanda Hess,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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But that’s not because the work of the public sector itself is unimportant.—
Adam Chandler,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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Council President Joe LaCava defended the city’s focus on something so relatively unimportant compared to closing a $258 million deficit that is expected to require substantial budget cuts.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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Trump sees Canada as an insignificant global player and weak neighbor, and incapable of winning a trade war with us, officials say.—
Axios,
Axios,
5 Mar. 2025
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That said, exit velocity cannot be faked, and sharing company with the likes of Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani isn’t insignificant.—
Justice delos Santos,
The Mercury News,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Undistinguished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undistinguished. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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