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Recent Examples of unexciting
Scientists have often regarded calls as unexciting and simple compared with birdsong.
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Sofia Marie Haley, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
Vodka is all-too-often written off as an unexciting category of spirit.
—Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Producers love an unexciting telecast, but audiences are hungry for the kind of raw emotion and drama that populates the films that win the awards.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
Kenzie was far from the first contestant in Survivor history to earn her million dollars that way, and her victory, though unexciting, was not illegitimate.
—Mark Harris, Vulture, 4 June 2024
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Sofia Marie Haley, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
Vodka is all-too-often written off as an unexciting category of spirit.
—Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Producers love an unexciting telecast, but audiences are hungry for the kind of raw emotion and drama that populates the films that win the awards.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
Kenzie was far from the first contestant in Survivor history to earn her million dollars that way, and her victory, though unexciting, was not illegitimate.
—Mark Harris, Vulture, 4 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexciting
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Getz, making his second appearance as a trade-deadline seller, had an uninspiring debut last year while dumping Eloy Jiménez, Paul DeJong and Tanner Banks for minor prospects and keying on Miguel Vargas, acquired in the three-way deal involving Fedde, Kopech and Tommy Pham.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
1 July 2025
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Their latest attempt was an uninspiring invitation-only Pride concert at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C., which was meant to demonstrate resistance to Trump’s occupation of the culture venue, but which ended up as more of a punch line.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
2 July 2025
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Here, Reader, is a run-through of Austen movies and limited TV series, from my favorite through least favorite — though Austen's novels are surprisingly sturdy, if approached with fondness and respect, and only the last of these would be considered unrewarding.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
19 July 2025
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These issues rendered the festival experience exhausting and unrewarding, contrary to what was promised when tickets were purchased.—
Melonee Hurt,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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But all the dark wood furniture and an uninteresting light fixture did little to make this an inviting space for dinner.—
Meghan Holloran,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 May 2025
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There is a belief in some circles that an acrobatic save is a result of a goalie not properly playing his position, and the best goalies make simple, uninteresting saves because they’re positioned properly to cut off the angle of a shot.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
13 Apr. 2025
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Hunter: The Reckoning puts players in the role of regular people who know monsters are real and can’t go back to their old, boring lives.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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Take away the road courses or boring ovals and race more street courses.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 July 2025
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Italy were insipid against the Swiss in that Euros defeat this time last year.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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Amidst their insipid competition to win Harris’ favor, the three daughters lament that none of them will ever truly be their father’s favorite, as that title belongs to the daughter who never grew up: the actual youngest Sinclair daughter, Rosemary.—
Alyssa Davis,
People.com,
19 June 2025
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Add in the ability to customize said bag’s color, strap length, closure type, and size, and suddenly, packing up for a day of playdates or errand-running doesn’t seem quite as monotonous.—
Terri Peters,
Parents,
22 July 2025
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Situated along the Aegean coast of Thessaly province, the industrial city is a grindingly monotonous patchwork of concrete block buildings; everything of historical interest was leveled during a series of devastating earthquakes in the 1950s.—
Derek Sandhaus,
Saveur,
10 July 2025
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On the first day of class, a student asked an understandably practical and banal question about the professor’s grading policy.—
Benjamin Hale
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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Here are Kim’s outfits, here are Kim’s diamonds, still as banal as breakfast.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2025
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Out-of-season tomatoes—notoriously pale, mealy, and bland—tend to be tomatoes in name only.—
Rachel Sugar,
The Atlantic,
24 July 2025
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Apparently, the line is bland but also profound and ironic, and all of that whooshes over my head, too, but that’s Saturday.—
Caitlin Lovinger,
New York Times,
19 July 2025
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“Unexciting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexciting. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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