as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest
the characterizations are good, but the plot is just ho-hum
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Recent Examples of ho-hum
William Arruda, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Although Be My Eyes is pitching this technology as beneficial for admittedly ho-hum, mundane everyday tasks, Buckley keenly emphasized there are far grander applications.
—Steven Aquino, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2017
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Signal to your audience that this is not just another ho-hum Zoom meeting that doesn’t require their full attention.
—William Arruda, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Although Be My Eyes is pitching this technology as beneficial for admittedly ho-hum, mundane everyday tasks, Buckley keenly emphasized there are far grander applications.
—Steven Aquino, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
Interjection
Moreover, on a day-to-day basis, not just month-to-month, record lows are almost becoming, well, ho hum.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2017
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Most of this long flashback segment is pretty boring, though.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
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Toyota and Honda have at times been called boring: Honda by its own engineers, Toyota more famously by a chairman descended from the company’s founder.Robert Ferris, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
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Highlights include a costume parade (for kids and parents), a Purim story and boo Haman and songs.Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
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Volunteer yourself to help with X, Y and Z accommodations if that lightens the family’s workload, without saying boo about the couple’s choices.Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
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The shutter speed of the 6X zoom is relatively slow in low light conditions, resulting in blurry shots more often than with, say, the Vivo X200 Pro.Ben Sin, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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However, Prince William wants to take things very slow for his wife to ease her back into normalcy.Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 22 Nov. 2024
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Similarly, listening as a member of a large audience or having to listen for a long time was also tiring.Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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Working while speaking was more annoying but less tiring than silence and noise.Dominique Fluker, Essence, 15 Oct. 2024
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Sweet Rose High Rolled Accent Chair Brighten up dull spaces with this floral accent chair that’s on major sale ahead of Black Friday.Kelsey Fredricks, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
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Peter Field and Adam Morgan call it the ‘extraordinary cost of dull’.Sairah Ashman, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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Give yourself permission to go see a truly stupid movie.Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week US, theweek, 8 Nov. 2024
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Among the show’s many, many, many Twilight Zone spoofs, this one is the funniest and the best, with a conclusion that’s equal parts brilliant and stupid.Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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Without outside support, pro-democracy activists inside the country faced increasing repression and were unable to convince the weary public that democracy was worth fighting for.Sarah E. Yerkes, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
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Fostering independence: These electronic devices can offer respite to weary parents, but only if their kids can use them independently.Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 2 Nov. 2024
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The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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By contrast, the prospect of citizenships and alliances—and perhaps conquests or crusades—structured around the opinions, beliefs, and subjective identities of ordinary people in times of peace would require a new (or very old) conception of empire.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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“Ho-hum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ho-hum. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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