as in slow
not spectacular or special
The team has had an unspectacular season. The company's stock has shown consistent if unspectacular growth.
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Recent Examples of unspectacular
The defending-champion Chiefs, fresh off the most unspectacular regular season of the Patrick Mahomes era, plowed through a gauntlet of AFC heavyweights, winning twice as road underdogs to reach their fourth Super Bowl in five years.
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Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2024
The 39-year-old James’ future has been similarly scrutinized amid an unspectacular season by the Lakers, who sit ninth in the West at 31-28 after last year’s run to the conference finals.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024
And the show helmed by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes was generally regarded as unspectacular.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2024
Garoppolo, a steady but unspectacular passer, threw for 3,978 yards and 27 touchdowns.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2024
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Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2024
The 39-year-old James’ future has been similarly scrutinized amid an unspectacular season by the Lakers, who sit ninth in the West at 31-28 after last year’s run to the conference finals.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024
And the show helmed by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes was generally regarded as unspectacular.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2024
Garoppolo, a steady but unspectacular passer, threw for 3,978 yards and 27 touchdowns.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspectacular
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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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However, even for a slow jog, that’s exactly what happened.Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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David, a husband and father, holds down an unexciting but lucrative tech job.Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
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The variety and talk spaces are, to put it frankly, some of the most stale and unexciting parts of the TV landscape.Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 17 July 2024
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The intrigue: Russell Westbrook, an enigmatic star who won league MVP honors seven years ago, joins the Nuggets after four uneventful seasons split with the two Los Angeles teams.Esteban L. Hernandez, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
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Law enforcement is very involved in protecting polling places, and Americans should have very little difficulty voting tomorrow in a way that is calm, probably uneventful and secure.ABC NEWS, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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On one hand, this was an extremely unsurprising and undramatic Bachelor franchise finale.Alice Burton, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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This gave me the naive assumption that an uneventful gestation would be followed by an equally undramatic delivery.Brigid Washington, Bon Appétit, 24 June 2024
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Sometimes, the genre becomes an excuse for amateurish or unimaginative filmmaking.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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At the same time, consumers are pushing back on poor quality and unimaginative fast fashion by thrifting, which has never been more popular.Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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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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“Unspectacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspectacular. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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