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Recent Examples of unromantic
The imagination can’t be bothered with unromantic minutiae.
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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
But engagement is often seen as a highly emotional and symbolic act and asking the recipient to sign a legal document in connection with receiving the ring may feel transactional or unromantic.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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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
But engagement is often seen as a highly emotional and symbolic act and asking the recipient to sign a legal document in connection with receiving the ring may feel transactional or unromantic.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 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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Hubspot — The stock slumped 12%, despite the customer platform reporting strong top and bottom-line figures for the third quarter.—
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
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Then, Walmart gets another bottom-line boost, as a large portion of those SNAP funds get turned around and spent at Walmart.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Not even a meta ending that pushes that idea to its logical breaking point can sour you on it.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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To be fair, public entities have been stretching public records trade secret exceptions to logical extremes long before college athletes started getting paid—and these carve-outs are often intended to be permissive.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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The shootout in the finale felt ripped from another (lesser) series, Sarah Catherine Hook’s monologue as Piper, now wanting to wash Thailand off her, just a bit of a pat cheat (and a more cynical White on display).—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Jan. 2026
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Yes, our political leaders have given some of us reason to be resentful, cynical and even depressed.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Jan. 2026
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There seemed to be a rational acceptance of the outcome.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Therefore, the present work supports the belief that rational materials design at both the macro and atomic levels can solve long-standing challenges, according to a press release.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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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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At 48 percent off, the traveler-adored Matein Travel Laptop Backpack is an excellent, sensible gift that can function as both a personal item and an everyday sightseeing tote.—
Merrell Readman,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Nov. 2025
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Understanding the absurdity of one trillion anything makes the $38 trillion US national debt that economists have been blathering on about for years look almost sensible.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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That said, reasonable preparation can help even those familiar with international payment systems avoid high fees, long waits and general confusion.—
Jason Phillips,
Kansas City Star,
6 Jan. 2026
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That’s understandable and reasonable, and fans have every right to express their fandom through frustration when teams don’t live up to expectations.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Unromantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unromantic. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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