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Recent Examples of unromantic
Darcy goes running after Elizabeth in the rain…and then proposes to her in quite a clumsy and unromantic way?
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Marley Marius, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2025
Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
The imagination can’t be bothered with unromantic minutiae.
—Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025
But if Naples’s gaudy decadence is hot on social media, the city is also experiencing a much more unromantic, enduring and crude degradation that is engulfing the youth from its poorer quarters.
—Gianni Cipriano, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
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Marley Marius, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2025
Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
The imagination can’t be bothered with unromantic minutiae.
—Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025
But if Naples’s gaudy decadence is hot on social media, the city is also experiencing a much more unromantic, enduring and crude degradation that is engulfing the youth from its poorer quarters.
—Gianni Cipriano, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unromantic
Adjective
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In his experiences and chronicles of the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, Curzio Malaparte was a shape-shifter—pitiless, clinical, cynical, unsentimental, indifferent to morality and idealism.—
Leah Downey,
The New York Review of Books,
7 Feb. 2026
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White’s dialogue is unsentimental but rife with anguish; Owen Teague and a seductive, destructive Abbey Lee give the pain its due.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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To be constrained by audience expectations and bottom-line priorities can feel limiting.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Feb. 2026
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The top- and bottom-line numbers handily beat analysts’ consensus forecast.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
10 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Whether your companion’s vibe is emotional or logical, try to harmonize with it.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Feb. 2026
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Bruce Meyer, the union’s deputy executive director and lead negotiator, would be the most logical successor.—
Bill Shaikin,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Critics have accused the company’s AI researcher, co-founder, and CEO, Dario Amodei, of a cynical attempt to block competition.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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Houellebecq is a famously cynical figure, and an odd bedfellow for Dreher.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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Unlike the city of Poway, which favors hitching posts over parking meters, San Diego has elected to ignore all rational analyses of parking fee options, in favor of looking at parking as a cash cow.—
Harvey Levine,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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In 2026, China’s luxury sector is more selective, rational, and emotionally discerning than ever.—
Yiling Pan,
Vogue,
17 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The film is full of such commonsensical insights about people and their affairs.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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However, the high price point is less sensible.—
Caroline Hughes,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Feb. 2026
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Saka was substituted at half-time — a sensible move given the tie was won and Arsenal have two Premier League games next week, including a north London derby away against Tottenham.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2026
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The prosecution detailed nine separate errors made by Plamberger during the climb—from failing to bring bivy gear to failing to abide by a reasonable turnaround time—which collectively suggest a charge of gross negligence.—
Owen Clarke,
Outside,
21 Feb. 2026
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Counties with moratoriums Counties use moratoriums to buy time to write new zoning and regulation for wind and solar farms, sometimes to craft reasonable laws and sometimes to craft bans.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Unromantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unromantic. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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