as in unromantic
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Recent Examples of unglamorous
Experiencing work - even in its most routine and unglamorous forms - can provide invaluable perspective.
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Marvin Krislov, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
One of those is U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who has quietly undertaken the complex, unglamorous work of reintroducing some structure and process into tariff policy.
—Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2025
Consider the National Culvert Removal, Replacement, and Restoration Grant Program, which allocated $1 billion over five years to fix decrepit culverts, the unglamorous pipes that funnel water beneath roadways.
—Ben Goldfarb, Vox, 14 Mar. 2025
Since its creation 92 years ago, during a national panic that closed thousands of banks, the FDIC has performed some of the unglamorous but crucial work of ensuring financial stability.
—Maria Aspan, NPR, 27 Feb. 2025
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Marvin Krislov, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
One of those is U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who has quietly undertaken the complex, unglamorous work of reintroducing some structure and process into tariff policy.
—Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2025
Consider the National Culvert Removal, Replacement, and Restoration Grant Program, which allocated $1 billion over five years to fix decrepit culverts, the unglamorous pipes that funnel water beneath roadways.
—Ben Goldfarb, Vox, 14 Mar. 2025
Since its creation 92 years ago, during a national panic that closed thousands of banks, the FDIC has performed some of the unglamorous but crucial work of ensuring financial stability.
—Maria Aspan, NPR, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unglamorous
Adjective
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Darcy goes running after Elizabeth in the rain…and then proposes to her in quite a clumsy and unromantic way?—
Marley Marius,
Vogue,
25 Mar. 2025
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Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Even on a dusty tarmac with the car riding on decidedly unexotic Michelin Pilot Sport 4S summer tires (the same rubber that was used to set its official 0–60 and quarter-mile times), the Nevera leapt off the line without a hint of wheelspin.—
Bradley Iger,
Ars Technica,
17 Aug. 2022
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Benefit’s popular cherry-red Benetint started life in 1976 as a nipple stain made for exotic dancers out of rose petals and carmine and later commercialized for the unexotic rest of us.—
Linda Wells,
Town & Country,
16 Apr. 2021
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“Unglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unglamorous. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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