monotonous
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We’re all familiar with workplace efficiency, where every task must beat the clock and “skill and creativity” are reduced to “repetitive, monotonous tasks, without the beautiful compensation of singing along.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
My mind flitted back to a conversation I had with my physical therapist about modern love: Dating in L.A. has become monotonous.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
Mills, a sociologist, challenged this belief, describing how white-collar work could be just as monotonous, powerless and stressful as factory work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
That’s enough to cycle in three or four dinners over the course of a quarter — plenty to be useful, but not so much that it becomes monotonous.
From Salon • Sep. 9, 2025
In prison, where so little breaks the monotonous routine, the smallest thing causes a commotion of talk.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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