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Recent Examples of platitudinal
Callie seems to be anticipating—or demanding—some soothing, platitudinal advice.
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 5 Sep. 2021
There is a prescient, pitch-perfect satire of the superficiality and platitudinal meaninglessness of modern life.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
Perry quickly midwifed—as creator, writer, and director—the soapy The Haves and Have Nots and trite platitudinal working-class comedies like Love Thy Neighbor.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 19 June 2018
This morning, Trump repeated the platitudinal desire to rebuild the F.B.I.:
According to the Washington Post, White House press secretary Sean Spicer hid in the bushes to avoid being questioned on the reasoning behind Trump’s actions.
—Mattathias Schwartz, The Intercept, 10 May 2017
Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 5 Sep. 2021
There is a prescient, pitch-perfect satire of the superficiality and platitudinal meaninglessness of modern life.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
Perry quickly midwifed—as creator, writer, and director—the soapy The Haves and Have Nots and trite platitudinal working-class comedies like Love Thy Neighbor.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 19 June 2018
This morning, Trump repeated the platitudinal desire to rebuild the F.B.I.:
According to the Washington Post, White House press secretary Sean Spicer hid in the bushes to avoid being questioned on the reasoning behind Trump’s actions.
—Mattathias Schwartz, The Intercept, 10 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for platitudinal
Adjective
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For now, Chow himself might cop to the platitudinous quality of his own descriptions.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
17 Oct. 2024
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These meager efforts to humanize them further in a couple shots does little to improve their platitudinous conception.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
30 Aug. 2024
Adjective
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In these environments, humanoid robots are expected to perform repetitive or physically demanding tasks that are difficult to automate using conventional industrial robots.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Mar. 2026
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Unlike conventional computers, which store information as 0s and 1s, quantum computers use qubits, fundamental units of information that can exist in multiple states simultaneously, enabling them to perform calculations that would take conventional computers millions of years to complete.—
Etiido Uko
March 23,
New Atlas,
23 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Such a story told, even twice-told, is always lacking, never filling the whole picture because it is set apart.—
Jonathon Sturgeon,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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While legal sports books must follow regulations set by states, prediction markets have argued their trades — called event contracts — are derivative markets, and thus fall under the CFTC's jurisdiction.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
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Nowhere is this more the case than the energy sector that has underwritten and made possible the transformation of the Gulf states over the past half-century, and whose health remains vital to the global economy and supply chains in oil, gas and many derivative products.—
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Platitudinal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platitudinal. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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