as in boring
having nothing exciting, interesting, or unusual happening; not eventful
an uneventful vacation/day/life The flight home was uneventful.
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Recent Examples of uneventful
A week after Makary’s relatively uneventful confirmation hearing before the Senate health committee, Hawley drew attention to Perkins’s appointment in the new administration, the first political position in her career.
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Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 30 Mar. 2025
The six-day Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, which starts Tuesday and ends March 10, held an uneventful pre-meeting press conference on Monday.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
The rest of it wasn’t just boring or uneventful, but pretty sad.
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Mainland China had a fairly uneventful day bouncing around the room with utilities underperforming.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 30 Mar. 2025
The six-day Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, which starts Tuesday and ends March 10, held an uneventful pre-meeting press conference on Monday.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
The rest of it wasn’t just boring or uneventful, but pretty sad.
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Mainland China had a fairly uneventful day bouncing around the room with utilities underperforming.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneventful
Adjective
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No more boring, irrelevant training modules—this is learning at the speed of work.—
Lisa Bodell,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Some of this may happen under cover of darkness, but much of it happens in the open, under cover of arcane technocracy or boring bureaucracy.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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View 6 Images Reading and writing on regular tablets can be tiring for your eyes, which is where E Ink can help.—
Paul Ridden,
New Atlas,
20 Mar. 2025
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Ultimately, many on the internet have identified this week as a particularly tiring one for Black K-pop fans.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The non-violent struggle for freedom is a slow but steady process.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
5 May 2025
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The facade was one of drama but for Preston, the reality has been a slow, weary decline.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
Adjective
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An older player was driving the younger ones and pretended to get lost in an isolated section of the county, where a group of accomplices emerged in masks and black clothing, imitating an abduction with at least one gun and one knife, according to the district attorney.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
1 May 2025
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The movie set, like all others, should have only had blanks on hand, but somehow a number of live rounds made their way to the location and one such bullet ended up in the gun that went off as Hutchins and Baldwin lined up a shot in an old church.—
Marco della Cava,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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With two treatments, the capybaras should be sterile for at least a few months.—
Michael Nied,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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The lower levels of the parking garage are sterile and lifeless — a liminal space of flickering lights and zero cars.—
Jack Flemming,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Uneventful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uneventful. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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