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Recent Examples of underwhelmThe value of that stake has soared in the past two years even though the team’s on-field performance has continued to underwhelm.—John Dobosz, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024 Rashford certainly wasn’t the only one to underwhelm with United’s central midfield unit particularly weak in and out of possession.—Graham Ruthven, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024 Unlike last season down the road with the Hoosiers in Bloomington, this NBA baptism has come in measured doses, intended not to overwhelm, but also with expectations of Ware not to underwhelm.—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2024 Apple underwhelms Kodak Digital photography is another example.—Will Daniel, Fortune, 9 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for underwhelm
The vast swathes of empty seats visible at Goodison Park before the end of the recent 2-0 home defeat to Nottingham Forest showed TFG has inherited a fanbase ready for change and wearied by recent seasons, and a team in urgent need of help.
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Patrick Boyland,
The Athletic,
7 Jan. 2025
Johnny works 40 minutes past one and goes to bed wearied by the Sisyphean task.
Signs of infestation include a decline in leaf growth, boring dust in the cracks of tree bark and oozing sap, according to University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources.
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Cameron Macdonald,
Mercury News,
20 June 2025
Burnett seems bored by the conventions of the revenge gangster plot, which took over Black film and music, in the nineties.
But three weeks into their stay — Spain arrived in New Zealand well in advance of its first game, hoping to draw the sting from the jet lag — the place had started to pall.
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Rory Smith,
New York Times,
3 Aug. 2023
But after a time, the combination of abrasive, impenetrably shellacked characters and deliberately, hopelessly tangled shaggy-dog storytelling begins to pall, and viewers may wish for a simpler way in.
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