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Adjective
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Plus, a tiny bathroom with a lukewarm shower and scratchy towels can make even the best hotels feel wearisome rather than wonderful.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Jan. 2025 -
The hybrid experience has grown wearisome since the binge-Zoom years of the pandemic.—
Steve Tengler,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Loud, tiresome and half-baked, the off-kilter hilarity and attempts at sentimentality aren’t given much clearance to land, causing the emotional overtones to feel unearned.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
29 Jan. 2025
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Even after the online arguments about Beyoncé’s influences and ideology became tiresome, Cowboy Carter’s music remained grander and weirder than discourse could capture.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
17 Dec. 2024
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Health systems in the U.S. are struggling to contend with burnout, staffing shortages and razor thin margins, so companies are racing to develop AI tools that can streamline some of the industry’s more tedious administrative tasks.—
Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
18 Jan. 2025
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Not on the practice field, but in the training room, going about the small tedious tasks of rehabbing a knee injury.—
Adam Grosbard,
Orange County Register,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Operose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/operose. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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