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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
Adjective
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Throughout, the depth and quality of Sullivan’s attention to prosaic detail—even plain and unappealing objects—never wavers.—
The Atlantic Culture Desk,
The Atlantic,
26 Dec. 2025
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The roots of these songs, though, are more prosaic.—
Emma Madden,
Pitchfork,
21 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Slowly the camera pulls back to reveal an interior window, and then the back of a man’s head in silhouette, as our protagonist watches the monotonous procession.—
John Penner,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Clear Lake's one-day Color the Wind Kite Festival in February began more than 20 years ago to brighten up monotonous winter days in northern Iowa.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Midwest Living,
29 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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But that approach required a tedious manufacturing process that NASA hoped to avoid.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
23 Jan. 2026
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On the rooftop of The Views Baía hotel, Desarma reinvents the tedious tasting menu with ambitious, delicious works of art with every bite, paired to wines that impress even the most jaded of oenophiles.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Carol is assigned a liaison from the hive mind, Zosia (Karolina Wydra), an unfailingly polite and stubbornly uninteresting woman who uses the wealth of information at her disposal to try to mollify her unhappy charge.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
22 Nov. 2025
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With both of these cases being largely hollow and uninteresting, even despite the involvement of a traffic-cone-size butt plug, the burden is on Allura’s arc to grip us.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The Chiefs turned that spiritless first half into a 28-7 blowout Monday night against the Commanders, opening the second half with touchdown drives of 80, 75 and 94 yards.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
28 Oct. 2025
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From spiritless spirits to refusing to open up a bar tab, members of Generation Z are continuing to challenge alcohol traditions.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Some skyscrapers are quite uniform and rather boring.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2026
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Writing that’s as boring as your dullest relative was likely written by a chatbot that can’t see, hear, taste, smell, touch — or feel.—
Karen Stabiner,
Mercury News,
23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Although his dullish voice-overs attempt to establish him as a deep thinker and observer, Moss outwardly comes off as anything but: surly, cocky, needy, slackerish, immature.—
Gary Goldstein,
latimes.com,
5 July 2018
Adjective
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But some in the party have zeroed in on less talked-about elections, in presidential battlegrounds and ruby-red states around the country, that could prove less costly and have a far-reaching impact at a time when the Democratic brand has grown wearisome with some voters.—
Hunter Woodall,
CBS News,
10 Dec. 2025
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The journey, first to Paris and then through Switzerland and Milan and onwards to Venice, was for the most part pleasant, being blessedly free of many of the wearisome and often infuriating hindrances and misdirections that rail travel usually entails.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Prosy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosy. Accessed 24 Jan. 2026.
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