as in slow
not spectacular or special
The team has had an unspectacular season. The company's stock has shown consistent if unspectacular growth.
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Recent Examples of unspectacular
Revenue growth has proven steady but unspectacular.
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Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
Leigh Silverman directs a rigorously unspectacular production, with an almost dogmatic refusal to add any Broadway razzle.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
The defending-champion Chiefs, fresh off the most unspectacular regular season of the Patrick Mahomes era, plowed through a gauntlet of AFC heavyweights, winning twice as road underdogs to reach their fourth Super Bowl in five years.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2024
The 39-year-old James’ future has been similarly scrutinized amid an unspectacular season by the Lakers, who sit ninth in the West at 31-28 after last year’s run to the conference finals.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024
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Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
Leigh Silverman directs a rigorously unspectacular production, with an almost dogmatic refusal to add any Broadway razzle.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
The defending-champion Chiefs, fresh off the most unspectacular regular season of the Patrick Mahomes era, plowed through a gauntlet of AFC heavyweights, winning twice as road underdogs to reach their fourth Super Bowl in five years.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2024
The 39-year-old James’ future has been similarly scrutinized amid an unspectacular season by the Lakers, who sit ninth in the West at 31-28 after last year’s run to the conference finals.
—Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspectacular
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That will be a welcome change from an unusually slow offseason so far, but there’s no chance Sasaki will sign with his new team this week.Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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No one knows for sure why the rally happens but some experts attribute it to such seasonal things as holiday shopping and investors wrapping up their books before the end of the year, ahead of a slower January.Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2024
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So the Royals have firmed up their second base position (lefty-hitting Massey should move into a bench role) with a stable if somewhat unexciting presence who is locked in for the next couple of years.Tony Blengino, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Yet the performance on Friday tended bland: lovely and unexciting.Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Tyson fought a reality show star half his age, with Paul declared the winner after eight uneventful rounds.Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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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
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On one hand, this was an extremely unsurprising and undramatic Bachelor franchise finale.Alice Burton, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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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
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The firm is smart, if also unimaginative, to highlight competition with China — which is indeed bipartisan, though likely to be managed very differently by the incoming administration.Johanna Costigan, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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Sometimes, the genre becomes an excuse for amateurish or unimaginative filmmaking.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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The report took into account living standards, cultural environment, housing, infrastructure, air quality and other features that can make a city either an attractive or uninspiring place to live.Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2024
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Nearly every contender in the league is eager to land an additional top-four capable defender and the supply of potentially available trade targets is both meagre and somewhat uninspiring.Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Unspectacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspectacular. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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