staleness

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Recent Examples of staleness Coach Billy Napier’s team blended play-calling staleness, horrendous clock management, defensive containment issues and overall immaturity. Noah White, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staleness
Noun
  • There was seemingly a healthy respect between the players, like opposing superstars Virat Kohli and Babar Azam sharing a laugh in an enduring image, in what was a snapshot of the possibilities when the stench of politics is absent.
    Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The family claimed their house was plagued with blood-curdling screams, foul stenches and other terrors: Jack Smurl and one of his daughters had been tossed around the house, as was the family’s pet German shepherd.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Dart’s fearless style may be exactly what the Giants need to finally snap out of this prolonged funk.
    Dan Duggan, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The allure for Breezy Bowl is the notion that Brown is in the R&B-soul-funk-pop line of succession of Usher, the Jacksons, and James Brown.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Carson Wentz‘s stat line didn’t reek of disaster in Sunday’s loss to Pittsburgh in Dublin.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The town itself is also undergoing a massive urban re-development initiative led by Quasartico — which definitely reeks of gentrification and will probably be nefarious in the long run.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Staleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staleness. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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