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Recent Examples of lukewarm But when the direction doesn’t hook us in enough, these ideas tend to go down like a lukewarm latte in a film that could have really used more heat. Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025 The drop in its valuation multiple signals a shift in investor expectations following disappointing results earlier this year, a lukewarm luxury housing market, and concerns regarding leverage. Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Morgan willing to take lumps with rookie kicker While Canales has been lukewarm in his comments about rookie kicker Ryan Fitzgerald, Morgan offered a more polished endorsement on Thursday. Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2025 That might include a lukewarm shower followed by applying fragrance-free moisturizer, then ten minutes of gentle stretching or meditation. Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 25 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lukewarm
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lukewarm
Adjective
  • While this is only slightly warmer than what is normal for mid-September for the Gulf Coast, this is 10 to 15 degrees warmer than what is normal for this time of the year for much of the Mississippi Valley -- including for parts of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, South Dakota and Minnesota.
    Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Great Britain’s winning performance from Friday’s four races, held in bright sunshine and warm gusty breeze, earned driver Dylan Fletcher and his team their second victory of the season.
    Andrew Rice, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • As the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis documented, the press are often participants, not merely neutral observers, in the Israel-Islamist conflict.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Stellar mass black holes are considered to be electrically neutral, and until now, primordial black holes were theorized to be the same.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Still, this contributed to a somewhat tepid level of support for the hosts, even on home soil, especially when combined with flat, uninspiring football in the group stage.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • And then there’s the Nissan Versa that comes standard with a manual gearbox as a way to both maintain its standing as the most-affordable car in America, and to wring the most out of its tepid (though fuel-efficient) 122-horsepower engine.
    Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Zach Bryan and Gavin Adcock were involved in a heated confrontation that nearly turned physical at the Born & Raised Festival in Pryor, Oklahoma.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Researchers in Taiwan have developed a stretchable, self-healing gel that changes color when pulled or heated.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Cracker Barrel statement doesn't satisfy naysayers Reactions to the announcement were largely unenthusiastic, with many fans accusing the chain of ignoring their concerns and calling for a return to the old brand design.
    Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 26 Aug. 2025
  • There's only so much one can glean from the preseason, but performance reviews for Maye have been unenthusiastic at best.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Agrawal and her team studied ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at sub-boiling temperatures (below 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 100 degrees Celsius) — as a potential hospitable environment for life.
    Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
Adjective
  • At times, Beijing has taken harsh measures toward North Korea—including temporarily suspending oil shipments, restricting Chinese tourism, and applying financial sanctions to the North—although such efforts have typically been short-lived and halfhearted.
    SHUXIAN LUO, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Lukewarm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lukewarm. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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