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Recent Examples of undramatic
The agency’s work is bureaucratic, technical, and undramatic—the institutional opposite of masked agents making violent arrests on the streets of American cities.
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Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
17 Feb. 2026
And for most people — and all children — the entirety of the day itself is boring, unremarkable and undramatic.
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Alex Ross Perry,
Vulture,
27 Nov. 2025
This gave me the naive assumption that an uneventful gestation would be followed by an equally undramatic delivery.
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Brigid Washington,
Bon Appétit,
24 June 2024
A lot of change is undramatic growth, transformation, or decay, or rather its timescale means the drama might not be perceptible to the impatient.
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Krista Stevens,
Longreads,
24 Jan. 2024
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Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
17 Feb. 2026
And for most people — and all children — the entirety of the day itself is boring, unremarkable and undramatic.
—
Alex Ross Perry,
Vulture,
27 Nov. 2025
This gave me the naive assumption that an uneventful gestation would be followed by an equally undramatic delivery.
—
Brigid Washington,
Bon Appétit,
24 June 2024
A lot of change is undramatic growth, transformation, or decay, or rather its timescale means the drama might not be perceptible to the impatient.
—
Krista Stevens,
Longreads,
24 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undramatic
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The Stars took Jakub Vaněček, who’s a quality yet unspectacular defenseman and has a legit chance to play.
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File under solid but unspectacular.
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Reliability and consistency were her hallmarks—admirable qualities, but unexciting.
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Dull, unexciting fight scenes; just CGI monsters.
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Alicent additionally promised Rhaenyra that a march to the Red Keep would be uneventful, because Aemond and Vhagar were bound for the front at Harrenhal.
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Tracking performance was similarly uneventful in the best possible way.
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At a time when younger workers are often stereotyped as quick to abandon jobs that feel difficult or unrewarding, Dimon said discomfort is part of the process.
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Cornish-Dale identifies potentially worrisome phenomena, such as a reported decline in sperm counts around the world, and gestures toward genuine feelings of ennui experienced by many young American men, who are stuck in unrewarding jobs, searching for greater meaning in their lives.
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The film's trailer looked unoriginal and uninteresting.
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On the other hand, the statement is emblematic of the uninteresting vagueness of Spider-Noir‘s world-building.
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This is a competent if unimaginative (it was made for Lifetime, after all) retelling of the real-life tale.
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Despite its expense and hard-working cast, its extensive, expensive and eye-filling special effects, and an effective but ear-splitting score by Jerry Goldsmith, the film remains surprisingly small, thanks to David Odell’s unimaginative, earthbound screenplay.
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Far fewer people stay responsible when the work turns boring, unclear or inconvenient, and that's precisely when ownership surfaces.
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Monocultures can be boring, but on the flipside, a huge collection of individual species looks like a busy bowl of potpourri.
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Rather than replacing existing automation, humanoid robots are intended to complement it by handling monotonous, ergonomically challenging, or safety-critical tasks while allowing employees to focus on higher-value work.
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Across two experiments, participants completed deliberately monotonous tasks, including copying or reading telephone numbers, before taking a creative uses test.
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“Undramatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undramatic. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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