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blahs

noun

plural of blah

as in boredom

the state of being bored I've just been stuck in the blahs lately

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boredom

Noun

Take us to that moment, this middle-age malaise, this boredom.

— Longreads, Longreads, 18 Aug. 2026
Her boredom was sharpened by the discovery that most of her initial assumptions were wrong.

— Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026

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