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Recent Examples of unrewarding
In many of the cases, the endings with Heat leading men have been awkward and, at least initially, unrewarding.
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Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2025
Automation enables human workers to opt out of repetitive tasks that are physically taxing but otherwise unrewarding.
—Massimo Bizzi, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The 10 wave playlist mode is boring, short and unrewarding.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Some or all of the Arab countries involved would likely demand that Israel halt settlement expansion on the West Bank or make other concessions to the Palestinians as the price of their participation in a difficult and unrewarding mission.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
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Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2025
Automation enables human workers to opt out of repetitive tasks that are physically taxing but otherwise unrewarding.
—Massimo Bizzi, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The 10 wave playlist mode is boring, short and unrewarding.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Some or all of the Arab countries involved would likely demand that Israel halt settlement expansion on the West Bank or make other concessions to the Palestinians as the price of their participation in a difficult and unrewarding mission.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrewarding
Adjective
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The downside, of course, is that performance is pretty unexciting.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 June 2025
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Trending up – Players under the age of 25 on NBA finals’ teams: Up 2 players from 2024 Small market doesn’t mean unexciting.—
Harry Enten,
CNN Money,
7 June 2025
Adjective
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Michail Antonio looks set to depart when his contract expires at the end of June, Evan Ferguson has returned to Brighton & Hove Albion following his uninspiring loan spell, and Niclas Fullkrug has an uncertain future, despite joining for £27million from Borussia Dortmund last summer.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
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The result was an uninspiring field that made Abruzzo’s hiring inevitable.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
21 June 2025
Adjective
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What used to take hours, days, or weeks, or be accomplished with tedious workflows and expensive SaaS tools, can now be achieved within minutes.—
Rachel Wells,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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The biggest downside of the experience is that some of the admin tools can be tedious to manage.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
17 June 2025
Adjective
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The new Snow White represents progressive mediocrity — the antagonism between Snow White and her evil stepmother (Gal Gadot) is bland and uninteresting after the remarkable modern version White as Snow that starred Lou de Laâge and Isabelle Huppert.—
Armond White,
National Review,
26 Mar. 2025
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The first act is genuinely atrocious, a mess of story threads revolving around an uninteresting villain in the AI Entity that feels far too downbeat and sad for this franchise.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
23 May 2025
Adjective
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This is worlds away from that boring deli chicken sandwich, while still being easy enough to whip up on the busiest of days.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
28 June 2025
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The contract’s scope of work includes the single bore tunnel, station entrances and exits, the excavation of underground stations and the procurement of a tunnel boring machine.—
Grace Hase,
Mercury News,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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Even the center's manager admitted the work is pretty monotonous.—
Aowen Cao,
NPR,
18 June 2025
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Like you, or, sorry, like the woman in the book, the ordinary feels so uninspiring, so monotonous.—
Susan Choi,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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Being different or unique for the sake of attention getting is tiresome when an agent is reading dozens of queries at a time.—
Kate McKean
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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Mike’s kvetching gets tiresome, but the movie zooms along with whiplash speed.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
19 June 2025
Adjective
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In one of the film’s most exquisite moments, Casey shows Jin, from the banal setting of her car, the building that sparked her aesthetic awakening; then her hand, holding a cigarette, traces the building’s outlines, as seen from her own ardently abstracting perspective.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
20 June 2025
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What needs to happen to turn the nightcrawler—the same banal creature found in gardens and on flooded sidewalks across the continent—into a valuable commodity? . . .—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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“Unrewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrewarding. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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