lackluster
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“In both instances, there are lackluster candidates, and so we see voters being very much undecided in both of these incredibly consequential races.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
Revised data released on March 13 showed that the U.S. economy grew at a lackluster 0.7% annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2025, much slower than previously reported.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026
Gross domestic product expanded at a lackluster 0.7% annual pace in the fourth quarter, the government said Friday.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026
Japan's Nintendo has enjoyed bumper sales for its latest Switch 2 console, but some have called the line-up of new games for the device lackluster.
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
Burnham was a lackluster student: “the records of the Old Central show his average scholarship to be frequently as low as 55 percent,” a reporter discovered, “and 81 percent seems the highest he ever reached.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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