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Recent Examples of tediousness
Many women with natural hair can empathize with the breakage concerns and tediousness that can arise when taking down protective styles.
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Caché McClay,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
It’s powered by your own hand—only without the tediousness of using a needle and thread.
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Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Aug. 2025
Caché McClay,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
It’s powered by your own hand—only without the tediousness of using a needle and thread.
—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tediousness
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The art of roster architecture has been replaced by the tedium of money management in many cases.
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There is a compounding effect to showing up, tolerating the tedium and choosing the harder path repeatedly.
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Career pivots are often messy, beginning with boredom signaling that current work no longer fits.
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Sitting with boredom is a political act.
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Caffeine and algae extract target puffiness and dullness, making dark spots and undereye shadows less pronounced over time.
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Symptoms of prolonged deficiency include ventroflexion of the neck (bending the head toward the floor); mental dullness (confusion, lethargy, non-responsiveness, failing to interact, low energy); vision changes; wobbly walking, circling, or falling; seizures; and weakness and lethargy.
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At first Zeke seems the very embodiment of older generations’ complaints about GenZ ennui, but Rice isn’t taking cheap shots — not least since since his elders-but-not-wisers get no more flattering a portrait once George (Camp) enters the scene.
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White’s actorly presence comes through in his vocal performance, lending the beleaguered fighter a sense of depressed world-weariness and poignant ennui.
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Driven by her own marginalization and desire for a life of pleasure, Mathilda has enacted Escapes throughout her life, repeatedly changing her name and circumstances to keep life’s drabness at bay.
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The war-weariness in Sadeq’s words reflects the exhaustion felt throughout Lebanon, but especially among the Shiites who form a third of its 6 million residents.
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This echoes his late father’s signature weariness of US negotiators, an Iran expert told CNN.
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And again… The Wave is usually a sign of crowd restlessness, a move for fans to entertain themselves when they aren’t being entertained by the event in front of them.
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Beginning with the pilot, there’s also been an appealing restlessness to Kate, a loose physicality and prideful disregard for glamour.
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“Tediousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tediousness. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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