as in routine
an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity
learned the rote for the exercise warm-up but not the reasoning behind it
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Recent Examples of rote
Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
The offseason is the time for the best descriptive stats — how a player actually performed in the prior season beyond rote fantasy numbers.
—Michael Salfino, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
That gets transmuted into a rote kind of love story.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
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Noun
The Elon University report further calls into question promises from tech giants that the value of AI will be in automating rote, menial tasks so that humans can spend more time on complex, creative pursuits.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
The offseason is the time for the best descriptive stats — how a player actually performed in the prior season beyond rote fantasy numbers.
—Michael Salfino, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
Some of the pieces in the book written before this real-life catastrophe, though, suffer from the rote world-weariness of the columnist accustomed to griping to order.
—Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
That gets transmuted into a rote kind of love story.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rote
Noun
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But with most makeup products falling under the 3.4 oz limit, including foundation and concealer, Barratt rarely encounters any difficulties when carrying out her full glam routine.—
Isabelle Rodney,
CNN Money,
20 May 2025
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The clip began with Kiser waking up and beginning her routine.—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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No defense adjustments to deal with Collier and Arike inconsistent freelancing as usual.—
Sabreena Merchant,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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No doubt this has had an impact on his play in the second major of the season, where his driving has been far from his usual quality.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 May 2025
Noun
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Many of the artists who recently enjoyed major breakthroughs triumphed in their mid-twenties after long grinds.—
Elias Leight,
Billboard,
16 May 2025
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To highlight just how many players are needed to survive the grind.—
Cody Stavenhagen,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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Social Security payments are set to go out May 14 – a few days later than is typical.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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However, the typical analyst expects shares to slide from here.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
14 May 2025
Adjective
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Be Strategic with Equity Compensation When Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) vest, the value is treated as ordinary income and taxed immediately.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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So many aspects of this Holy Father are just so ordinary.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
18 May 2025
Adjective
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But in the Sacramento region, most drinkers still associate chenin blanc with its sweet, unimaginative predecessors.—
Benjy Egel,
Sacbee.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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There are narrative tropes, flat characters and unimaginative enemies everywhere.—
Christopher rd,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The bill also includes a temporary $2,000 boost to the standard deduction, bringing it to $32,000 for joint filers.—
Kevin Freking,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2025
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Rivian's current least powerful battery pack provides 270 miles of driving range, but the standard R2 could have less range as a smaller model.—
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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To her credit, Sepideh is aware enough to own the surreal gulf between what to her is a normal life and what has become Fatma’s normal life.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
17 May 2025
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Command that eluded McCullers across his first two appearances started to creep back toward normal.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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“Rote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rote. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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