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Recent Examples of yawnerIf the stakes had not been so high—with election deniers on the ballot and the GOP running as the party of destruction—this would have been seen as a yawner of a midterm.—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 Nov. 2022 Will Alabama turn the SEC race into a yawner?—Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2022 The Browns make this one a yawner.—Dan Labbe, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2020 Psychologists have claimed that contagious yawning is linked to empathy in humans—those who yawn back are thought to be empathizing with the initial yawner’s feelings of boredom, fatigue or stress.—Erica Tennenhouse, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2018 See All Example Sentences for yawner
Court records viewed by NBC News revealed that the sequence of events that left Ross bloodied and bruised bore some similarities to the scenario that ended with Good’s death.
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Corky Siemaszko,
NBC news,
10 Jan. 2026
Games that are too easy bore older players, while overly complex games can frustrate younger ones.
One such winner is Steve Kovacs, who took first place in the Blackwater category, as well as the coveted best-in-show prize, for his whimsical image of a monkfish in Japan appearing to yawn.
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Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
The oohs and aahs over a 100-mph pitch have been replaced by yawns.