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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.
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Noah White, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Noah White, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staleness
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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