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Recent Examples of tedium Google's new tool lets users search for flight options using natural language, rather than having to go through the tedium of searching for an endless combination of dates and destinations to find a good deal. Zach Wichter, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025 For Scholten, real life is what any Los Angeleno knows all too well: hours stuck in soul-crushing traffic, Monday through Friday, with only podcasts to allay the tedium. IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2025 GitHub's Copilot reduces the tedium of writing boilerplate functions by autocompleting repetitive code patterns. Gabriel Snyder, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025 Boredom can sometimes feel like a bygone luxury in an age of screens and constant distractions—yet even with all the content in the world at our fingertips, tedium manages to creep in. Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for tedium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tedium
boredom
Noun
  • And yes, there were occasional hijinks spurred by youthful boredom and restlessness.
    Scott Huver, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Because her motivations seem much more complicated than mere boredom in your adaptation.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Tedium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tedium. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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