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Recent Examples of undramatic
And for most people — and all children — the entirety of the day itself is boring, unremarkable and undramatic.
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Alex Ross Perry,
Vulture,
27 Nov. 2025
This gave me the naive assumption that an uneventful gestation would be followed by an equally undramatic delivery.
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Brigid Washington,
Bon Appétit,
24 June 2024
A lot of change is undramatic growth, transformation, or decay, or rather its timescale means the drama might not be perceptible to the impatient.
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Krista Stevens,
Longreads,
24 Jan. 2024
In the next year, however, the small but dedicated community that is combating trafficking could get an enormous boost from an unexpected and rather undramatic source: the Outcome Document of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals.
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Sarah E. Mendelson,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Sep. 2014
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Alex Ross Perry,
Vulture,
27 Nov. 2025
This gave me the naive assumption that an uneventful gestation would be followed by an equally undramatic delivery.
—
Brigid Washington,
Bon Appétit,
24 June 2024
A lot of change is undramatic growth, transformation, or decay, or rather its timescale means the drama might not be perceptible to the impatient.
—
Krista Stevens,
Longreads,
24 Jan. 2024
In the next year, however, the small but dedicated community that is combating trafficking could get an enormous boost from an unexpected and rather undramatic source: the Outcome Document of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals.
—
Sarah E. Mendelson,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Sep. 2014
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undramatic
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Bradley checks the solid-but-unspectacular box in most other aspects of his game.
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All that said, there were legitimate moments of glory—like when Tai turned on Scot and Jason—that elevated the proceedings and turned this season into a solid, if unspectacular, entry.
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Reliability and consistency were her hallmarks—admirable qualities, but unexciting.
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Dull, unexciting fight scenes; just CGI monsters.
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Alicent additionally promised Rhaenyra that a march to the Red Keep would be uneventful, because Aemond and Vhagar were bound for the front at Harrenhal.
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Their lives, for the most part, were uneventful but perfectly nice.
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But its most striking characteristic, now that the media is completely oversaturated with violent murders and courtroom dramas, is that De Lestrade’s work is so straightforward and unsensational.
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Robinson, whose credits include The L Word and True Blood, approaches the story in such a low-key, unsensational way that the trio's beyond-bohemian arrangement is barely eyebrow-raising.
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At a time when younger workers are often stereotyped as quick to abandon jobs that feel difficult or unrewarding, Dimon said discomfort is part of the process.
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Cornish-Dale identifies potentially worrisome phenomena, such as a reported decline in sperm counts around the world, and gestures toward genuine feelings of ennui experienced by many young American men, who are stuck in unrewarding jobs, searching for greater meaning in their lives.
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The film's trailer looked unoriginal and uninteresting.
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On the other hand, the statement is emblematic of the uninteresting vagueness of Spider-Noir‘s world-building.
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This meant that teams were rewarded more for winning, encouraging imaginative and positive play over unimaginative and negative play aimed at sneaking a win or grinding out a draw.
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Neutrals can get boring, but this easy palette reads effortless, not unimaginative.
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Sustainable growth feels boring from the inside.
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The point is to make the boring stuff feel like a hangout, not to build a productivity system.
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“Undramatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undramatic. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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