unexciting

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Recent Examples of unexciting Another way of saying it: these companies generally are boring, unexciting and keep to themselves for the most part. John Navin, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025 Will Warren and Carlos Carrasco are among the internal favorites to take the spot vacated by Cole, though the Yankees could explore the trade market or a slim, unexciting list of remaining free agents. Gary Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025 Many economic forecasts show the U.S. adding somewhere around 150,000 jobs with a slight increase in the unemployment rate last month — a solid, if unexciting report. Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 6 Mar. 2025 Then comes a highly unexciting B.B. Kahan, president of the Academy. Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unexciting
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unexciting
Adjective
  • The 28-year-old put up similarly uninspiring numbers over 11 games at Triple-A.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 1 May 2025
  • Despite allowing an ugly early goal, Joseph Woll was sturdy enough to keep them in the game, but the final score flattered Toronto’s uninspiring effort.
    Nick Ashbourne, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Higher education advisor Dan Ulin of Elite Student Coach in Los Angeles, California says downsides of unrewarding advanced degrees can extend far beyond the potential for long-term student loan debt and being thrust into an industry with limited (or no) growth potential.
    Robert Farrington, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The big problem is that social media is unrewarding.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • What remains consistent is the splendid topography of Frazier’s prose, and the sense throughout his work that there are, in fact, no uninteresting places, just uninteresting writers.
    The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
  • Image The stories of Twain’s children, who either died young or suffered innumerable medical and professional setbacks, are heart-rending and hardly uninteresting.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Salon Clutch Structured yet theatrical, Le Salon is Jacquemus’s answer to the evening clutch—pared back, but never boring.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 10 May 2025
  • Robinson stars as Craig Waterman, a regular suburban guy with a boring job, a charming florist wife who's losing interest in him (Kate Mara), and a teenage son (Jack Dylan Grazer) whose indifference borders on hostility.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • But the insipid Premier League displays that have pushed the club to the lower reaches of the table mean there is a scarcity of belief that such an outcome will come to pass.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Bored of an increasingly insipid Premier League season?
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Through technologies like virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, this platform gives users the ability to create dynamic, multi-sensory career portfolios that go beyond basic bullet points and monotonous bios.
    Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The city’s turbulent 20th-century history is visible in the bullet holes on facades, the graffitied remains of the Berlin Wall and the monotonous residential blocks erected during the post-World War II reconstruction.
    Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • Her feeds from Paris Fashion Week 2016 are a representative sample—a pacifying stream of cream and white, diamonds and lace, outsize wealth made as banal as breakfast.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 19 May 2025
  • The internet has encouraged only more comparison, and more consternation—more places to argue, more pressure to make even the most banal parts of our lives beautiful.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • From there, the Angels have been one of MLB’s most bland and underachieving franchises.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2025
  • Charlie Byrd of New Babylon is almost as forgettable and bland.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025

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“Unexciting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexciting. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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