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Recent Examples of unambitious
Has this embarrassment of visual riches guaranteed that any story told on a smaller canvas is doomed to feel unambitious in comparison?
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Richard Edwards, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Se-ri’s plan to straighten her hair (and fix her life) finds new focus with the arrival of Han Yun-seok (Mercy For None’s Gong Myung), a quiet, seemingly unambitious transfer student from Seoul whose mother, Baek Jang-mi (Hong Eun-hee), happens to be a hair stylist.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
The county plan quickly ran into concerted opposition from playhouse fans and some cultural figures who called its intimate new auditorium small and unambitious and demanded instead an alternative plan calling for a full restoration capable of handling big Broadway-style shows.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
However, its unambitious deep bass performance practically begs for a subwoofer.
—PCMAG, 27 Jan. 2025
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Richard Edwards, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Se-ri’s plan to straighten her hair (and fix her life) finds new focus with the arrival of Han Yun-seok (Mercy For None’s Gong Myung), a quiet, seemingly unambitious transfer student from Seoul whose mother, Baek Jang-mi (Hong Eun-hee), happens to be a hair stylist.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
The county plan quickly ran into concerted opposition from playhouse fans and some cultural figures who called its intimate new auditorium small and unambitious and demanded instead an alternative plan calling for a full restoration capable of handling big Broadway-style shows.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
However, its unambitious deep bass performance practically begs for a subwoofer.
—PCMAG, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unambitious
Adjective
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Every 4:3 shot is framed to maximize the social verticality of the club, and every sequence is edited to evoke the indolent energy of a hot car on a hot summer’s day.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2026
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There are two types: Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which can be aggressive or indolent, according to the Cleveland Clinic.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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That they would be regarded as slothful morons who aren't worth the price of a ticket of admission.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
2 Feb. 2026
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Soviet Russia, too, experienced periodic panics about slothful bureaucrats impeding the dictatorship of the proletariat.—
Charlie Tyson,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Why didn’t Tania just get one of her fellow Council wokesters to hire her shiftless, entitled kin?—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
28 Sep. 2025
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The film, like How to Train Your Dragon, is about a shiftless youngster (Lilo, a Hawaiian girl who has been acting out since the death of her parents) bonding with a fantasy creature (Stitch, a blue alien experiment designed as a weapon of destruction).—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2025
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Spanning both Coachella weekends, the four poolside shows blend electronic music with the venue's wave pool, lazy river and open-air amphitheater — creating a unique daytime oasis of surf, sound and hospitality.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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Perez hit the ball off the end of the bat, a lazy fly to center field.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Unambitious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unambitious. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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