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Recent Examples of unsensational
But its most striking characteristic, now that the media is completely oversaturated with violent murders and courtroom dramas, is that De Lestrade’s work is so straightforward and unsensational.
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Vogue, 8 June 2018
Robinson, whose credits include The L Word and True Blood, approaches the story in such a low-key, unsensational way that the trio's beyond-bohemian arrangement is barely eyebrow-raising.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Oct. 2017
Vogue, 8 June 2018
Robinson, whose credits include The L Word and True Blood, approaches the story in such a low-key, unsensational way that the trio's beyond-bohemian arrangement is barely eyebrow-raising.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsensational
Adjective
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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
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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
Adjective
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This past offseason started hot and then slowly cooled into a generally unexciting paste.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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After his death, Pine settles into a requisite life in London as Alex Goodwin, a member of an unexciting intelligence unit called the Night Owls.—
Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Williams was solid, if unspectacular, for four-plus seasons until the Jets traded him across town to the Giants.—
Zack Rosenblatt,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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The Mets have already added Marcus Semien at second, a steady but unspectacular player at this stage of his career.—
Tony Blengino,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Mitchell arrives in the city just months after leading the Oakland Police Department in a remarkably short — and somewhat uneventful — tenure.—
Kyle Martin,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Nor did any other transaction involving the Spurs, in what turned out to be an uneventful trade season in San Antonio.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Antonio Express-News,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Last week, as cases continued to spread in Tamaulipas, the USDA began releasing some sterile flies along the state’s border with Texas.—
Bloomberg Wire,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Feb. 2026
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Dell Children's had to build an area of the hospital that would have specialized airflow to maintain a sterile environment and keep viruses and bacteria out.—
Nicole Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Roman’s play-calling was conservative at its best Sunday, unimaginative at its worst.—
Elliott Teaford,
Oc Register,
13 Jan. 2026
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But the weightless and unimaginative action feels less cinematic than theme park-y, as if the powers that be at Sony had jumped several steps ahead in their efforts to grow this into a global juggernaut franchise.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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As our Mike Vorkunov already pointed out, the four teams that are pennies above the tax line (Philadelphia, Denver, Phoenix and Toronto) are virtually guaranteed to make small deals to get under; these will just be spectacularly uninteresting trades in terms of actual basketball.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Symmetrical Throw Pillows Having two identical pillows placed neatly on either side of a sofa is the safest—and most uninteresting—choice.—
Angelika Pokovba,
Martha Stewart,
28 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Therefore, a slow-burn year is characterized by, amongst other things, a sustained effort in health, self-regulation, boundary-setting or skill development which is largely unrewarding in real time.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
29 Dec. 2025
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The drama stars Cici Wang as Monkey, a backstage theater worker facing unemployment after years of unrewarding work.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Unsensational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsensational. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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