monotonous
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As a part-time designer at a clothing company this year, she offered to look into using AI to help with the monotonous work of resizing product images.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
Slowly the camera pulls back to reveal an interior window, and then the back of a man’s head in silhouette, as our protagonist watches the monotonous procession.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
Much of Mr. Roberts’s movement for that quartet of dancers, despite some upper-body torsioning and unison pacings, presents repeated articulations for their arms, suggesting the flapping of wings, which grows monotonous.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 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
The incident had occurred and was gone for me: it was an incident of no moment, no romance, no interest in a sense; yet it marked with change one single hour of a monotonous life.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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