as in boring
having nothing exciting, interesting, or unusual happening; not eventful
an uneventful vacation/day/life The flight home was uneventful.
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Recent Examples of uneventful
Tyson fought a reality show star half his age, with Paul declared the winner after eight uneventful rounds.
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Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
The scenarios involving a pickup truck pulling a trailer ranged from an uneventful situation as a baseline, to one where the pickup and trailer veered in and out of the right-hand lane.
—Ed Garsten, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
The former heavyweight champ was in great shape, but only a shadow of his former self in that uneventful eight-round bout.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 19 Nov. 2024
The fight was mostly uneventful — Paul threw the most punches, almost triple what Tyson threw, with a stronger accuracy percentage.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
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Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
The scenarios involving a pickup truck pulling a trailer ranged from an uneventful situation as a baseline, to one where the pickup and trailer veered in and out of the right-hand lane.
—Ed Garsten, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
The former heavyweight champ was in great shape, but only a shadow of his former self in that uneventful eight-round bout.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 19 Nov. 2024
The fight was mostly uneventful — Paul threw the most punches, almost triple what Tyson threw, with a stronger accuracy percentage.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneventful
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If films like Nosferatu don’t find a wide audience and thrive in the marketplace, cinema faces a very bland, boring future.Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Either way, the winter garden is anything but boring.Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
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As for food, those tiring of tagine may be glad of the West African restaurants tucked away within the medina.Elle Benson Easton, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
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That eliminates long, tiring road transfers, and allows more time in the bush.Holden Frith, The Week UK, theweek, 26 Oct. 2024
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The Wi-Fi will always be slow and the gossip will always be fast.Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2024
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Despite these efforts, progress has been slow, and concerns about systemic challenges persist.Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Perhaps the most striking comes from the Baltimore Experience Corps trial, a large experiment in which adults age 60 and older were randomly assigned to either volunteer at elementary schools or be put on a waiting list.Maria Godoy, NPR, 25 Dec. 2024
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The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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The vast backdrop is beautiful but only moderately less foreboding than the oppressively sterile office where most of Season 1 takes place.Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
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States committed, on average, about 2% for syringe service programs, through which people can get sterile needles.Aneri Pattani, NPR, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Uneventful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uneventful. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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