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Recent Examples of unexciting
At about 3,200 pounds, the Gallardo coupe is more flickable than its weight suggests, with handling that is sure-footed and beautifully neutral, but hardly unexciting.
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Robert Ross, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2025
While declaring a tie for now is admittedly unexciting, the fact that this race is too close to call from the outset is a good thing.
—PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
He was distracted by a looming snowstorm when talked to the founder, James Park, and thought that Park was flat and unexciting.
—Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Cracker Barrel proudly announced a new, streamlined, unexciting logo, explained it poorly, defended it clumsily, and failed to recognize that anything remotely resembling a jab at white people, Southern heritage or tradition these days will be attacked as woke.
—Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Robert Ross, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2025
While declaring a tie for now is admittedly unexciting, the fact that this race is too close to call from the outset is a good thing.
—PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
He was distracted by a looming snowstorm when talked to the founder, James Park, and thought that Park was flat and unexciting.
—Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Cracker Barrel proudly announced a new, streamlined, unexciting logo, explained it poorly, defended it clumsily, and failed to recognize that anything remotely resembling a jab at white people, Southern heritage or tradition these days will be attacked as woke.
—Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexciting
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The rest of the potential free-agent group is an uninspiring mix of older players who have been there, done that — some who have done it in Cleveland already — and a few young players who have bounced around the league in recent years.—
Zac Jackson,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2026
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Lucky for me, even the most uninspiring of days is no match for my trusty all-purpose cleaning routine.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
13 Feb. 2026
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Therefore, a slow-burn year is characterized by, amongst other things, a sustained effort in health, self-regulation, boundary-setting or skill development which is largely unrewarding in real time.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
29 Dec. 2025
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The drama stars Cici Wang as Monkey, a backstage theater worker facing unemployment after years of unrewarding work.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 Aug. 2025
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As our Mike Vorkunov already pointed out, the four teams that are pennies above the tax line (Philadelphia, Denver, Phoenix and Toronto) are virtually guaranteed to make small deals to get under; these will just be spectacularly uninteresting trades in terms of actual basketball.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Symmetrical Throw Pillows Having two identical pillows placed neatly on either side of a sofa is the safest—and most uninteresting—choice.—
Angelika Pokovba,
Martha Stewart,
28 Jan. 2026
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This outfit, one of Bessette-Kennedy’s most famous, manages to turn what could feel boring—a plain khaki midiskirt—into a genuine statement.—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
27 Feb. 2026
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Children, that great adventure, boring?—
Daniel Smith,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
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There was the insipid loss at St Andrew’s in August 2023, in Farke’s first season, a game that the wantaway pair of Wilfried Gnonto and Luis Sinisterra refused to play.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2026
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Even the most insipid formulaic pop nonsense can induce that almost mystical reflection of life if your connections to the time of its airplay are meaningful.—
Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
27 Jan. 2026
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This includes a comic scene about proofreading the monotonous legal documents that clerks like Bartleby were paid pennies to copy, and a scene at the end where a jail cook rattles off all the former occupations of its now-nameless inmates.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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This is especially true for couples who live together and work demanding jobs; the cycle of work, home, sleep and repeat can become monotonous over time.—
Mark Travers,
CNBC,
15 Feb. 2026
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This sobering reality forced John to find peace with the twilight of his creative career and with his banal job at Honeywell.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Feb. 2026
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At best, this is the stuff of primetime soap opera, written and played in a broad, banal register a world apart from the intense, stricken disorientation that Adams brings to her character.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2026
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Italian seasoning, Gruyère cheese, and roasted red peppers make this chicken anything but bland.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
23 Feb. 2026
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Nutritionists no longer recommend giving kids bland food, but the idea that children should eat different foods than adults nevertheless stuck.—
Olga Khazan,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Unexciting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexciting. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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