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Recent Examples of unromantic
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.
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Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
The imagination can’t be bothered with unromantic minutiae.
—Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025
But if Naples’s gaudy decadence is hot on social media, the city is also experiencing a much more unromantic, enduring and crude degradation that is engulfing the youth from its poorer quarters.
—Gianni Cipriano, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
The system is simple, if unromantic: One partner proposes through the app, and the other is sent a notification.
—Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
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Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
The imagination can’t be bothered with unromantic minutiae.
—Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025
But if Naples’s gaudy decadence is hot on social media, the city is also experiencing a much more unromantic, enduring and crude degradation that is engulfing the youth from its poorer quarters.
—Gianni Cipriano, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
The system is simple, if unromantic: One partner proposes through the app, and the other is sent a notification.
—Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unromantic
Adjective
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His message to parishioners has remained steady and unsentimental.—
Michelle Edgar,
Daily News,
7 Jan. 2026
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After the even more cryptic Alps, Lanthimos branched out into the English-language market, where his often cruel, unsentimental style of surrealism proved an immediate critical hit with 2015’s The Lobster.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
9 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The bottom-line mandate for the Bruins on Monday night was to grab two points against the worst team in the Eastern Conference.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
27 Jan. 2026
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The bottom-line is that California has a housing shortage.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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That focus on efficiency included a coldly logical approach to salary-cap management, and an update of the bruising defense that Belichick had pioneered with 49ers old rivals, the 1980s iteration of the New York Giants.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2026
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Trump has taken this tradition to its logical extreme by exempting from legal consequences his supporters and those following his instructions—seeming to assert his supremacy over not just federal but state laws, which exceeds even the wide powers conferred by the Constitution.—
Bernadette Meyler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Overall, the county’s business community is feeling cynical about the state of the economy, with two-thirds of merchants reporting a negative future outlook, the study’s authors said.—
Claire Wang,
Oc Register,
23 Jan. 2026
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The interior dining room, divided into two levels and connected by a slowly sloping ramp, could at first cynical glance register as backdrop.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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Anyone who has made an impulsive decision in a moment of intense emotion knows that feelings shape our choices just as much as rational thought.—
Jasna Hodžić,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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There was no rational administration.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2026
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The film is full of such commonsensical insights about people and their affairs.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Savvy therapists are leveraging AI in sensible and vital ways.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Villa’s second goal came from a sensible decision by Morgan Rogers after an attacking corner was cleared.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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When external pressure intensifies—political, economic, or social—institutions often respond by narrowing their field of vision and toeing the line seems like the most reasonable course of action.—
Anjali Chaudhry,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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But Bloom’s legacy has had the unfortunate effect of making even more reasonable canon defenses look reactionary.—
Colton Valentine,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Unromantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unromantic. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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