: not excitingly attractive : not glamorous
unglamorous work
… only 80 pay to enter this unglamorous, graffiti-scarred brick building with views of the Thames.—
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Stand your ground — that matters — but don’t be too proud to do the unglamorous work.
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The years of unglamorous, expensive, uncertain work required to prove a reusable rocket or edit an extinct genome are the same years that make the result nearly impossible to replicate at speed.
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Israel enlisted Jeffries in the unglamorous work of recruiting candidates.
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Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 3 June 2026
The professional market lives in the slow, unglamorous work of making expert workflows faster, more confident and more recognizably the user’s own.
—Sourabh Pateriya, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
The years of unglamorous, expensive, uncertain work required to prove a reusable rocket or edit an extinct genome are the same years that make the result nearly impossible to replicate at speed.
—Ethan Stone, USA Today, 29 May 2026
Israel enlisted Jeffries in the unglamorous work of recruiting candidates.
—Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
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“Unglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unglamorous. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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