as in uninspiring
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Recent Examples of unexciting
Starmer is a bit of a cypher, his platform this campaign has often been vague or unexciting, and the British public is decidedly lukewarm on him as a figure.
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Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 5 July 2024
Read more Related Articles Iran Iran’s clerics urged an unenthusiastic public to vote in today’s unexciting parliamentary elections.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2024
But that user growth could be sustained only by the technology’s transition into something unexciting.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
Despite having spent his entire adult life in the public eye, he is measured, analytical, and almost intentionally unexciting.
—Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
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Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 5 July 2024
Read more Related Articles Iran Iran’s clerics urged an unenthusiastic public to vote in today’s unexciting parliamentary elections.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2024
But that user growth could be sustained only by the technology’s transition into something unexciting.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
Despite having spent his entire adult life in the public eye, he is measured, analytical, and almost intentionally unexciting.
—Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexciting
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In May 2023, the Turkish opposition came within a few points of beating a long-ruling populist strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, despite fielding an uninspiring candidate who failed to offer a convincing agenda for economic improvement.Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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The announcement came soon after a presidential debate performance in late June that many saw equally uninspiring and troubling, and led to subsequent questions about Biden’s mental fitness and ability to defeat Republican nominee Donald Trump.Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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The 10 wave playlist mode is boring, short and unrewarding.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Some or all of the Arab countries involved would likely demand that Israel halt settlement expansion on the West Bank or make other concessions to the Palestinians as the price of their participation in a difficult and unrewarding mission.Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
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Even a feature-length version of this plot would likely struggle with its lack of ideas, but 10 half-hour episodes feel punishing, well before a finale that offers an uninteresting explanation of the main mystery, and can’t even be bothered to resolve several other running plot threads.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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But the color work on the series isn’t just about pulling off the tricks that every DP would like to make a TV show look a little more appealing — darkening uninteresting blank spaces within a frame, making the color consistent between shots, and smoothing out any variables in the lighting.Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2024
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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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The blandly positive lyrics seemed even more insipid amid all the bedroom jams.Eric Webb, Austin American-Statesman, 1 June 2024
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With the Netherlands’ starting options likely to be the insipid Wout Weghorst or the inconsistent Cody Gakpo, the 22-year-old Zirkzee could quickly find himself in the starting XI.The Athletic UK Staff, The Athletic, 24 Apr. 2024
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Vassilev said the focus will be on less-risky parts of a business, such as highly-repetitive and monotonous tasks that workers don’t want to do.Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2024
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Thornton upholstered the headboard in the same blue-and-white toile as the wallpaper but used different designs of similar colors for the window curtains, bed coverings, and assorted cushions, so the room feels neither too disjointed nor too monotonous.Catherine Hong, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2024
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Well, that many people reportedly tried to watch it, but due to the crush of interest and tune-ins, many reported experiencing buffering problems and glitches that interrupted what turned out to be a surprisingly banal slugfest.Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2024
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The long passages of banal detail in Murakami’s fiction are a sort of ballast, anchoring his precipitous swerves into the fantastic.Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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So while the photography is lovely and the horses are impressive, the show devolves into hour after hour of similar scenes and bland drama.Noel Murray, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
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Leaning too heavily on AI often leads to efforts that can seem technical and impersonal, full of bland phrasing and generic messaging.Antony Robinson, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Unexciting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexciting. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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