as in tiring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest
I wish this book weren't so boring; I keep falling asleep whenever I try to read it
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as in drilling
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 wearying
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 boring
Christopher Murray, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2024
Instead, the running last night was relatively … boring?
—Patrick Iversen, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
Steven Aquino, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
That deserves far more digital ink to be spilled than the usual navel-gazing about how iPhones are boring.
—Steven Aquino, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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Accessories Back to Life sport bottle: $58 Your water bottle doesn’t have to be boring.
—Christopher Murray, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2024
Instead, the running last night was relatively … boring?
—Patrick Iversen, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
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That deserves far more digital ink to be spilled than the usual navel-gazing about how iPhones are boring.
—Steven Aquino, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
That deserves far more digital ink to be spilled than the usual navel-gazing about how iPhones are boring.
—Steven Aquino, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boring
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This somewhat surprising 8,600 improvement may be consumers tiring of online commerce and wanting to get out to shop.Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 28 Nov. 2024
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But fights about politics — or simply not knowing what to say — can sometimes make for a tiring experience.Natasha Frost, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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The big choices characters do make are all almost incomprehensibly stupid.Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Nobody directing people and stupid mazes with limited entrances.Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
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While congressional hearings are often dull set pieces, this one offered a remarkably lively and informative discussion of the practicalities and opportunities facing America regarding space resources.Greg Autry, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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For her, the glory of the honeymoon had been in the planning, the dreaming, the building up in her mind; what a letdown to find that Paris was just a place, that some days were full of chill gray drizzle, that the dull, thick bodies of other tourists blocked her from full joy.Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
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Wine and conversation flow on a slow tour of the natural vineyards in Spain’s Castilla y León.Megan Lloyd, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2024
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No one knows for sure why the rally happens but some experts attribute it to such seasonal things as holiday shopping and investors wrapping up their books before the end of the year, ahead of a slower January.Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2024
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The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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By contrast, the prospect of citizenships and alliances—and perhaps conquests or crusades—structured around the opinions, beliefs, and subjective identities of ordinary people in times of peace would require a new (or very old) conception of empire.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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Thankfully, the Theragun Mini comes to the rescue of weary travelers, offering percussion massage that revs muscles back up to fighting shape.Matthew Medendorp, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2024
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Without outside support, pro-democracy activists inside the country faced increasing repression and were unable to convince the weary public that democracy was worth fighting for.Sarah E. Yerkes, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
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Advertisement So aiming to lure more people off Main Street (a.k.a. U.S. 95) to visit this 31-room motel in the dusty, stark middle of Nevada, Mehar is boosting his creepiness quotient.Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
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Choose from 20 colors including dusty gray, indigo blue, olive green, and more.Rachel Simon, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
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Caterpillars and mites have been heavy feeders; control with natural sprays.Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
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Snow in forecast in several states Temperatures will be below average across the Northern Plains, according to the National Weather Service, while heavy lake-effect snow will impact Michigan's upper peninsula and parts of the lower peninsula through Monday.Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
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“Boring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boring. Accessed 12 Dec. 2024.
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