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Recent Examples of undistinguished
Born into undistinguished families, this cartoonishly ambitious couple hustled to make George a titan of industry.
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Judy Berman, Time, 20 June 2025
The project came into existence from the vapors at the end of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s undistinguished seven years in office.
—John Seiler, Oc Register, 31 May 2025
The emergence of Ayari has been a surprise following undistinguished loan spells in the Championship with Coventry City and Blackburn Rovers last season.
—Andy Naylor, New York Times, 17 May 2025
The United States has a long and undistinguished history of playing into the North’s game plan.
—Sung-Yoon Lee, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2010
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Judy Berman, Time, 20 June 2025
The project came into existence from the vapors at the end of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s undistinguished seven years in office.
—John Seiler, Oc Register, 31 May 2025
The emergence of Ayari has been a surprise following undistinguished loan spells in the Championship with Coventry City and Blackburn Rovers last season.
—Andy Naylor, New York Times, 17 May 2025
The United States has a long and undistinguished history of playing into the North’s game plan.
—Sung-Yoon Lee, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2010
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undistinguished
Adjective
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Stein’s early fiction was plainly written and unremarkable.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Johansson’s direction is serviceable if unremarkable, and one has to wonder why this particular script spoke to her as a directorial debut.—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The monologue that led to Kimmel’s involuntary hiatus was thoroughly unexceptional for the show.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
19 Sep. 2025
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The Citizen: This is a character who is normal in every possible way, living an unexceptional life, who makes a morally dubious choice that leads them down The Path Of No Return.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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That may seem like a small and unimportant distinction to the non-Macca-heads among us.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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Those tests that pick up most cancers tend to pick up other unimportant things as well — and those screening tests that are limited to discovering cancer often miss many people with the disease.—
Cory Franklin,
Twin Cities,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Probably not, but those HBO dramas, one a reasonably large success and the other a large failure, represent a not-insignificant portion of Scorsese’s output from the past 15 years.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Oct. 2025
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The taxes and fees for these awards aren’t insignificant.—
Meghan Hunter,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Undistinguished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undistinguished. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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