as in unimportant
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Recent Examples of unserious
When Twitter launched, much of its content was relatively unserious.
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Clare Duffy, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
Feig amps up the irreverence, dialing up the foolishness to truly unserious levels.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
This shift began with what felt at first like ad hoc, perhaps unserious attacks on the sovereignty of Denmark, Canada, and Panama.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
But the three to four deeply unserious men who appear each season to drone on about crypto, Joe Rogan, and Brazilian jujitsu will get herded away by the captive audience of their dreams and stop wasting a living, breathing woman’s time.
—Nic Juarez, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2025
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Clare Duffy, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
Feig amps up the irreverence, dialing up the foolishness to truly unserious levels.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
This shift began with what felt at first like ad hoc, perhaps unserious attacks on the sovereignty of Denmark, Canada, and Panama.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
But the three to four deeply unserious men who appear each season to drone on about crypto, Joe Rogan, and Brazilian jujitsu will get herded away by the captive audience of their dreams and stop wasting a living, breathing woman’s time.
—Nic Juarez, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unserious
Adjective
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Everything else is unimportant compared to being honest about your love to people.—
David Chiu,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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In future decades and centuries, economic archaeologists will marvel that what was so unimportant was taken so seriously.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Small or midsize businesses with a website could be targeted by frivolous lawsuits.—
Daryl Lim,
The Conversation,
9 Apr. 2025
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The big picture: North Carolina is one of a handful of states without an anti-SLAPP law, according to the Institute for Free Speech, which protects people from frivolous lawsuits intended to keep them quiet.—
Alexandria Sands,
Axios,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This trivial annoyance reminded me of several things.—
Nate Anderson,
Ars Technica,
22 Mar. 2025
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From trivial to tragic There have been previous Facebook defectors, but none as high-ranking as Wynn-Williams.—
Michelle Goldberg,
The Mercury News,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Even if the missing evidence is insignificant or duplicative, the prosecutor’s prior statement of readiness is invalidated, the clock is considered to have never stopped, and in many cases has by then run out, and the case is dismissed.—
Mimi Rocah,
New York Daily News,
13 Apr. 2025
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Turkish drone losses in the Middle East in recent months were not insignificant, especially considering the losses spanned at least four indigenous drone types.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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This strategy worked for him for about 10 years—and then began to bore him silly.—
Art Spiegelman,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2025
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Call it luck, fate or a silly coincidence, but 4/20 and Easter Sunday fall on the same day this year.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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While most of the snow is expected to be light, heavy snow will set in across northern New England states in the afternoon, with Maine expected to see between 4 and 8 inches.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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The front area of the building will hold office space with a shop area in back for light maintenance on equipment.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In 2022, a consortium of private retirement-plan providers announced a collaboration to boost the portability of small retirement accounts.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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The sheriff’s office handles homicide investigations for several smaller municipalities within the county.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Unserious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unserious. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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