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But the film never achieves the heights of the classic actioners that clearly inspired it, and its overuse of familiar genre tropes (for once, can’t the main villain be uncharismatic, like so many in real life?) soon becomes wearisome.—
Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Feb. 2025 -
Plus, a tiny bathroom with a lukewarm shower and scratchy towels can make even the best hotels feel wearisome rather than wonderful.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Jan. 2025
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The marketing around their rematch (which ended in a tiresome double disqualification) was a poor omen for Savage vs. DiBiase.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2025
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Naturally, you’re being manipulated the whole time to keep you watching, as tiresome as the characters can become over the series’ several hours.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2025
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Grant applications can be so tedious that some organizations hire professionals whose sole job is to write applications for grant funding.—
Jasmin Suknanan,
CNBC,
14 May 2025
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To get the most out of it from the gate, enterprises should identify tedious knowledge work that AI agents can support, require agents to show their work and leverage AI verifiers to supervise for accuracy.—
Alon Goren,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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“Operose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/operose. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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