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as in unhumorous
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unhysterical
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After more than six months of study, Tianwen-2 will leave the asteroid and drop the collected sample down to Earth before heading off to investigate 311P/PanSTARRS, a complicated celestial object that’s part asteroid and part comet.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
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However, these days, a more collected look is preferred.—
Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
30 Dec. 2025
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Unlike Dickens, to whom he was sometimes compared, Balzac didn’t care for or about children, and was essentially unhumorous.—
Elif Batuman,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2017
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More aggressive than the Tide, more physical, more composed and clearly better prepared, the Hoosiers showed zero rust after a month-long break after the Big Ten championship game.—
Paul Myerberg,
USA Today,
2 Jan. 2026
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But Peggy never forgot her roots; a genre-blending selector with range, she’s known for her energetic but composed sets.—
Kelly Washington,
Refinery29,
22 Dec. 2025
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Does your table offer a first-class ticket to spicy destinations across the globe, or a comfortable sinking into recollected recipes from your mother?—
Hayley Maitland,
Vogue,
7 June 2025
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Perhaps a strategic loosening of novelistic form was what Hollinghurst was going for, in an effort to capture the enigma of the recollected past.—
Giles Harvey,
The New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2024
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His other go-to bogeyman, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, is now firmly in his lame-duck era as his term ends this spring.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
11 Jan. 2026
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Your ultra-lame social media posts (with awful production values) don’t cut it by a Colorado mile high.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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Opposite a serene Rooney Mara and a raging Claire Foy, Buckley is a lone dissenting voice in Sarah Polley’s heart-wrenching portrait of a group of women and girls in an isolated Mennonite colony who are debating how to respond to a series of brutal attacks from the men in their community.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
12 Jan. 2026
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The serene pool and hot tub area is no different, decorated with native plants and nestled into the landscape; the walls encasing the pool deck are a nearly identical hue to the surrounding mountains.—
Kristine Thomason,
Outside,
11 Jan. 2026
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Fueled by a humorless fear of precisely the human experiences and emotions that connect us, book banning ironically often metamorphosizes into acts of promotion, and just as often ends up exposing vile and corrosive hypocrisy in those lighting the matches.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
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Funny novels are invariably more serious than humorless ones.—
Victor J. Blue,
Harpers Magazine,
23 Nov. 2025
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In Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man, a tranquil church becomes the scene of a shocking (and seemingly impossible) murder.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Dec. 2025
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The Corn Islands Flung more than 40 miles off the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, the Corn Islands have long been spoken of by in-the-know travelers looking for a truly tranquil escape.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Dec. 2025
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“Unhysterical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhysterical. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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