twice-told

adjective

Definition of twice-toldnext
as in boring

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twice-told
  1. boring
  2. tedious
  3. tiresome
  4. old
  5. dry
  6. pedestrian
  7. ponderous
  8. prosaic
Adjective
  • Covering the entertainment business is never boring, and 2025 is already shaping up to be another banger as business models that have been around for decades continue to evolve, erode and unravel.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • News to Know Disney buys Fubo On its face, the move might sound like a boring press release.
    Chris Branch, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of boring
Adjective
  • As in other parts of the world, content moderation is one of the most tedious and low-paying jobs in China’s tech industry.
    Zeyi Yang, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The alternative is Wisconsin’s study committee, where stakeholders thrash out various options in a tedious, transparent process.
    Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2025
Definition of tedious
Adjective
  • With all that is stacked on Trump’s to-do list, picking fights with friends seems like an indulgent distraction that will soon grow tiresome.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 7 Jan. 2025
  • While the premise is interesting enough, the show is stuffed with tiresome jokes that fail to pack a punch.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 Sep. 2024
Definition of tiresome
Adjective
  • On the day of the shooting, Nixon-Clark was 16 years and 9 months old, just shy of reaching legal status as an adult.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Jan. 2025
  • That policy is so old that Chapman remembers it from his rookie year in the NYPD as a young patrolman in East Harlem in 1968.
    Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of old
Adjective
  • According to one study, even in the extremely dry Martian atmosphere, the climatic conditions inside the volcanoes' craters are such that frost can form even though it's never been found elsewhere on Mars – even at the poles.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Southern California's climate continues to ping-pong between unseasonably wet conditions, which grow vegetation and unseasonably dry conditions which dry all that out into fire fuel.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
Definition of dry
Adjective
  • Android 15’s second beta release has other notable additions today that didn’t make it to the relatively pedestrian first release.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 15 May 2024
  • Yet New England's 14-2 record and a defense that allowed the league's fewest points were not necessarily indicative of true dominance, as the team displayed a pattern of frequently doing just enough to win, the average margin of victory a fairly pedestrian 10.3 points.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
Definition of pedestrian
Adjective
  • What happens to the victims is swept under the rug, but the number of traumatized, law abiding citizens paying a dear price now under that rug is becoming a ponderous digit.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Both seasons tackle a wide range of pressing social issues (inequality of wealth, prejudice, capitalism, consumerism) without being ponderous.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of ponderous
Adjective
  • Conrad’s prosaic stories about striving to make it in the magazine industry paled in comparison to the loopy invented dramas of her two frenemies.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
  • And like an opera, the prosaic and the extraordinary exist side by slide in Maria’s inner sanctum.
    Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of prosaic
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