as in bore
someone or something boring
as neither candidate was willing to make an unequivocal statement about anything, the debate proved to be a complete yawn
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Recent Examples of yawn
Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
My beans on toast was only halfway eaten when the waitress, yawning and heading into the final stretch of a triple-shift, discovered me.
—Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 July 2025
Inside, everything is slow, wispy, a soothing yawn of a life.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 11 June 2025
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Noun
The prehistoric Pacific yawned wide at the time, meaning dispersal over the water is the only route consistent with the evidence.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
My beans on toast was only halfway eaten when the waitress, yawning and heading into the final stretch of a triple-shift, discovered me.
—Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
Verb
But between a narcissistic president (Meryl Streep), a sleazy administration, and the country's la-la-land media machine, their world-ending warning is met with yawns and collective dismissal.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 July 2025
Inside, everything is slow, wispy, a soothing yawn of a life.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 11 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yawn
Noun
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But come summer, when tomatoes are at their sweetest and heaviest, ready to burst just from the bore of your gaze at the farmers market, there is no need to complicate things.—
Emma Laperruque,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
2 July 2025
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Her T-shirt bore Ozzy Osbourne’s name, a tribute to the Black Sabbath singer, whose death was announced earlier Tuesday.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
24 July 2025
Verb
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Others take weight-loss drugs to fix the sleep apnea problem, not to mention the myriad other oral devices snorers purchase in hopes of snoring less while sleeping.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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Both, however, save some of their advanced features (like AI insights, snoring detection, and gesture controls) for Samsung phones specifically.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
17 July 2025
Noun
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When watering tomatoes, deliver water directly to the base of a plant using a watering wand, a drip hose, or a watering can with a long spout.—
Sheryl Geerts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Aug. 2025
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Water by drip irrigation rather than overhead to keep the leaves dry.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
7 Aug. 2025
Verb
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They can be snorted, smoked, injected or taken orally.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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There also was the time Osbourne reportedly snorted live ants instead of cocaine on a whim in a bizarre contest with his band’s opening act, Mötley Crüe.—
Ethan Sacks,
NBC news,
22 July 2025
Verb
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According to multiple witness accounts, Black groaned, gasped and appeared to be in visible distress during the execution.—
Christina Coulter,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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The soundtrack to it all included enough cracking to keep the audience and judges cringing and gasping.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
30 July 2025
Verb
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Nothing seemed out of the ordinary until Isaac appeared to kiss and sniff Chastain's underarm area.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez , Larry Fink,
FOXNews.com,
29 July 2025
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Miami will need someone to sniff out runs close and makes plays close to the line of scrimmage. ▪ 5.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
20 July 2025
Verb
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In front of them, warthogs snuffled around in the grass.—
Flora Stubbs,
Travel + Leisure,
8 July 2025
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Click for more > Clearly, this is no ordinary sea creature quietly snuffling the currents.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 May 2010
Verb
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The drilling was coming from the massive construction project next door, which eventually gave way to cartloads of rocks and dirt that wheezed out dust that clogged the air-conditioner.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
30 July 2025
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She's chased first by security and then by Jackson, who wraps a scarf around his wound and wheezes onward.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
7 July 2025
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“Yawn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yawn. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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