boredom
Example Sentences
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They’ve become monuments to corporate greed — zones of atrophy, boredom and total disempowerment.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
Also, I am afraid your columns do not sufficiently extol the value of work, which Voltaire rightly claimed protects us from the evils of boredom, vice, and poverty.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
“Digital environments become the easiest and most reliable way to regulate mood, boredom, or stress, so they gradually start to crowd everything else out.”
From Slate • May 12, 2026
Pinball, for the author, was a way of “killing time,” an antidote to boredom as interminable afterschool afternoons stretched out before him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
His voice carried with a minimum of vitality, as though he had come over to speak to Lane out of boredom or restiveness, not for any sort of human discourse.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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