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Recent Examples of prosy
By the start of the 20th century, instead of offering a few prosy sentences that gestured vaguely toward ingredient amounts, American recipes increasingly began with a list of ingredients in precise, numerical quantities: teaspoons, ounces, cups.
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Helen Zoe Veit, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
Helen Zoe Veit, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prosy
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More prosaic solutions to the puzzle have also been floated over the years.Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
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Another 243 were recommended for closure as of June, also resolved to be prosaic objects.Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
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On the hunt for a recipe to break you out of your monotonous meal routine?Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2024
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Others are dry and monotonous, a single color, a single dominant plant species — one flat pan for miles.Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
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Without the proper tools, keeping your floors in tip-top shape can be a tedious affair, especially for pet owners.Maggie Horton, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
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Though for many people shopping can be relatively painless (depending on how picky your tastes are), for those who fall outside of the typical industry sizing, the process can be a tedious slog or even painful.Mikelle Street, Them, 26 Nov. 2024
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At conventions, she was relegated to uninteresting panels.Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
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Even a feature-length version of this plot would likely struggle with its lack of ideas, but 10 half-hour episodes feel punishing, well before a finale that offers an uninteresting explanation of the main mystery, and can’t even be bothered to resolve several other running plot threads.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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Yet the club dropped the contest in spiritless fashion, 6-2.Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
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Lil Wayne is not tolerating spiritless crowds at his shows.Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
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Black Friday Saks Fifth Avenue Jewelry Deals Basics don’t have to be boring—and this Black Friday, why not restock your everyday essentials?Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 29 Nov. 2024
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Winner of the Locarno Jury Prize, this daring essay-film is radical and often bleak but, even at its nearly 3-hour run time, never boring.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2024
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The slow, wearisome trudge towards Everton’s new dawn continues.Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
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Every supernatural series, from Midnight Mass to Yellowjackets, needs a character resistant to the show’s inner eeriness to deliver persistent conflict, and Eion Bailey and his great head of hair played amusement-park engineer Jim with the exact right amount of wearisome square-mindedness.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
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Even for the hottest among us, snapping a fantastic selfie can be tough and tiresome.Erica Sloan, SELF, 11 Oct. 2024
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None of them are written with any specificity, though the actors manage to land the lines and elicit a few chuckles here and there — except for a tiresome twosome who try to speak with a Brooklyn accent for the entirety of the movie.Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Prosy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosy. Accessed 11 Dec. 2024.
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