boring
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Thanks to the boom in online fitness and beauty culture, our feeds are constantly overflowing with good-looking people who are just too boring to be hot.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
It was part of Sir Keir Starmer's strategy to try to take on boring reforms and offer markets stability in a bid to lower borrowing costs.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
“I thought golf was a fairly stale and boring sport at the time,” Clark says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
She explains: "Some will assume you can't spell your own name. Or you love trains. Or you're extremely clever. Or you're hyper focused on a boring hobby."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Mom leans down, her eyes boring into mine.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
The district proposes to make 226 borings and dig 57 test pits into the Earth across 2,500 cubic yards, according to the project description.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
Much of the recent work has involved preparing the beachside site to collect evidence through soil borings and other methods about what caused the collapse.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
Late acquisition of rights of way leads to delays in engineering, soil borings and other pre-construction work, the consortium wrote.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2019
The Vancouver, British Columbia-based company wants to use existing roads to access 14 locations to drill test borings to determine the possible value of its copper mining claim.
From Washington Times ● May 26, 2016
And Odysseus took his time, turning the bow, tapping it, every inch, for borings that termites might have made while the master of the weapon was abroad.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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