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as in to drill
to make a hole or series of holes in
some woodpecker bored holes in our tree in the backyard
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as in to weary
to make weary and restless by being dull or monotonous
the professor's lifeless and unimaginative teaching style bored the students to death
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Recent Examples of bore
Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
Many dating app users report matching with people who were engaging while texting but boring in person, yet no studies exist that show whether chatfishers get more dates.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Her books were their progeny, Stein acknowledged, and without Alice’s mothering—and typing, proofreading, cooking, sewing, shopping, bookkeeping, and warding off bores—they might not have been born.
—Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Denji is bored out of his mind by most of them, but the last film is good enough to move him to tears.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
Many dating app users report matching with people who were engaging while texting but boring in person, yet no studies exist that show whether chatfishers get more dates.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
The long drive back to Yolo County late Saturday evening wasn’t such a bore for the UC Davis football coach, his giddy group of Aggies and suddenly weary and sleep-ready sons.
—Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Her books were their progeny, Stein acknowledged, and without Alice’s mothering—and typing, proofreading, cooking, sewing, shopping, bookkeeping, and warding off bores—they might not have been born.
—Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bore
Noun
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But historically, investors have met them with a collective yawn.—
Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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Marco Rubio, one arm flung over the back of his chair, made no attempt to disguise a yawn.—
Seth Harp,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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But experts have warned that a more holistic approach is needed over the long term that would allow a steady drip of services rather than responding when symptoms become so severe that law enforcement must get involved.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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The evolution of the airport lounge A decade ago, lounges were quiet corners of airports where business travelers could nurse a drip coffee and catch up on emails.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
23 Oct. 2025
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The research team also underlined that adjusting dimple sizes can make the fabric perform better in certain wind speeds by reducing drag by up to 20%, according to the researchers’ experiments using a wind tunnel.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Oct. 2025
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Germany and Italy were drags on the growth rate, however, as both countries' economies stalled.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Bore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bore. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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