bored
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The Covid swoon broke a record for the speed of its recovery and coincided with millions of bored young people opening brokerage accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Johnson: I actually really enjoy it as a guy who likes to talk and gets really bored in my car in L.A. traffic.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
So what’s a bored, frustrated president to do?
From Salon • May 12, 2026
But he got bored with the paperwork required to emigrate and changed his mind.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
Nothing was right where I’d left him, chewing grass and looking bored.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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