unchallenging

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Recent Examples of unchallenging As a flavorless mixer, vodka filled a gap in the American spirits market, providing bartenders and home drinkers alike with an unchallenging tipple to mix with anything on hand. Time, 4 June 2025 In the face of the flagrant human rights abuses, however, Tagle responded with statements Duterte’s opponents criticized as vague and unchallenging. Camille Elemia, NBC news, 4 May 2025 The answer, typically, is unchallenging, decorative art. Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025 The core expression is just fine, an easy-drinking and unchallenging dram that skirts the boundary between sweet and spice, which is exactly what it is supposed to do. Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2025 The Huskies have not reached the final milestone since 2016, and the years of unchallenging conference play could be a factor as much as ever stronger coast-to-coast competition. Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2025 Payton Cofer wasn't excited about her options for high school in Louisville's South End after two unchallenging years in a middle school that was short on staff. Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Dec. 2024 The term is seen as emblematic of how digital consumption has shaped societal concerns, especially with the proliferation of superficial or unchallenging content online. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024 Yet the Sonata begins with seven bars of technically unchallenging music, which anyone who reads notation can manage. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unchallenging
Adjective
  • Crochet knitwear, peach-touch T-shirts and leather and suede trucker jackets complemented the spring offering, mining a cool, uncomplicated wardrobe.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 20 June 2025
  • Cuomo, age 67 and one of the last powerful men to succumb to the #MeToo movement, is an unlikely standard-bearer for a Democratic Party desperate to move on from the miseries of the past decade, but New York politics isn’t famous for its uncomplicated options.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • More than 50 years after its release, this tale of summer seems to sum up the dark arc of the counterculture, its images ranging from the innocent bohemianism of the Beach Boys to the mindless violence of the Manson family.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
  • But when the film hit theaters in 2002, that was just one of many surprises for audiences used to the slow, mindless zombies originated by George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead series.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • The data is pretty straightforward: Ticket prices just keep getting more expensive.
    Alex Sherman, CNBC, 19 June 2025
  • Setup was straightforward, the sideboard was well padded and close to fully set up.
    Briana Feigon, Architectural Digest, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • Think matching sets, easy trousers, breezy maxi dresses, and even beach totes.
    Christina Holevas, Vogue, 25 June 2025
  • One way to make cooking for others easier is to have go-to dishes — or entire menus.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • From Piggly Wiggly to gas station, deli to sit-down-restaurant, most quick lunch establishments (and the Southerners that lovingly and critically frequent them) take the flavor, texture, and temperature of their chicken salads extremely seriously.
    Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 27 June 2025
  • Whoever’s desk this ultimately lands on should make quick work of it; the administration will still get its claim that liberal judges are running roughshod over its policies or whatnot, but at least some separation of powers and rule of law will be preserved.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • For leaders, the takeaway is simple: let chaos strip the fluff away.
    Victoria Chynoweth, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2025
  • The simplest way to achieve your goal may be a version of the truth that’s not the whole truth.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025

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“Unchallenging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unchallenging. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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