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as in serious
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as in important
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfrivolous
Adjective
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There were no serious injuries reported or arrests made among the crowd of about 500 teenagers.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
6 June 2025 -
Nobody else can do what Isak does, but Newcastle lack serious backup at centre-forward.—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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This is one of the most important services of their lives.—
Buddha Lo,
People.com,
13 June 2025
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But what’s even more important is how the couple got together in the first place.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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Her brand is too earnest to accommodate irony or camp.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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The problem is that Flanagan—known for eerie but subtle horror films like Hush and Oculus and Netflix series like Midnight Mass and The Haunting of Hill House—puts too many overly earnest quotation marks around what should be the most moving scenes.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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Cook County is virtually the only major urban local prosecution office in the nation without one.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2025
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The competition Google, whose Android operating system is the only major rival to Apple’s iOS, has been barreling ahead with new AI tools and services.—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
8 June 2025
Adjective
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Authentic leaders define success by impact, growth, and meaningful contribution.—
William Arruda,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Taxpayers deserve to know whether that additional funding leads to students improving in meaningful, measurable ways.—
Bruce Rauner,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2025
Adjective
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Health insurers - losers The bill includes substantial funding cuts for the U.S. Medicaid program, with fiscal hawks pushing for cuts to partly offset the cost of the bill's tax components.—
Shashwat Chauhan,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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The raw data obscures just how substantial and prolonged the downfall of the little guy in the NBA has been.—
Lev Akabas,
Sportico.com,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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Selling bitcoin volatility into a bull market could prove fatal.—
Alexander S. Blume,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Here's what to know about the rare, but often fatal, disease.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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Under white canopy tents at the end of a long, dusty dirt road, hundreds gathered to commemorate the momentous occasion.—
Angela Palermo,
Idaho Statesman,
13 June 2025
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More to Explore Hall also details how slavery and emancipation were remembered—or not—by three notable nineteenth-century figures in the years following these momentous events as the construction of memory about Britain’s intimate role in slavery began.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
10 June 2025
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“Unfrivolous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfrivolous. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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