boring
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The action rewinds from Gretta and Dan’s initial meeting at the bar, and later fast–forwards to speed up some of the more boring bits of the album-writing process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
"Luke's got a bit of a character to him. For me, he's the ultimate professional. He might give a little bit of the large sometimes, but you need that, otherwise darts would be totally boring."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The repetition would quickly become boring, and my readers deserve better.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
That looming first common, boring day after a few weeks of new bliss is gone.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
What he meant, of course, was, It’s not yet boring enough.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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
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
Ecstatic, for example, “shall consist of scrap borings and turning alloyed with copper, tin, bismuth and zinc.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 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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