twice-told

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Recent Examples of twice-told Such a story told, even twice-told, is always lacking, never filling the whole picture because it is set apart. — Jonathon Sturgeon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for twice-told
Adjective
  • Infrastructure inspection is exactly the kind of boring but highly practical application that modern airships excel at, Grossman says.
    — Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The Milwaukee Brewers won what was, ultimately, a bit of a boring World Series in five games.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • In addition to filling in Balaban’s gaps with a tedious litany of mathematical steps, the agents also made some genuine innovations.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Running the same prompt through ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude one at a time is tedious.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • And no doubt that sequence continues to inform the tiresome topic more than a year later.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The pre-selection debates about three- or four-loss SEC squads and some team no one actually watches will prove incredibly tiresome, too.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • This old Southern home on a barrier island is a four-story frame structure decorated with antiques, Asian rugs, and Tiffany lamps.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2026
  • More photos, this time of our 12-year-old playing with a cat in our house.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • And dry forests and parched soils significantly increase the likelihood and severity of wildfires.
    — Ava Berger, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026
  • And El Nino is supposed to keep west Africa hot and dry through the winter.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • In addition to its badging, the 53 looks noticeably more focused than its more pedestrian CLA Class siblings.
    — Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Patrick Mahomes has not quite looked himself, the wide receivers have been inconsistent, and the running game has been pedestrian, at best.
    — Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings, two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree—to defend his forest from an army that is cutting it down.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026
  • The bass kept boring doggedly toward shore, lunging and vaulting into the air in ponderous leaps.
    — Ted Janes, Outdoor Life, 21 May 2026
Adjective
  • While the house is bursting with artwork that would make most museum curators envious, Herman’s home is surprisingly humble, built on a tight budget from prosaic materials.
    — Marissa Gluck, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Trump’s extravagant welcome gesture will almost certainly be matched by prosaic summit outcomes.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026

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“Twice-told.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twice-told. Accessed 2 Nov. 2026.

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