stodgy
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Investors in turn are recalibrating the yields they’ll demand to hold stodgy government debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Tuning in for some TV takes: Netflix’s binge-drop model disrupted the stodgy rhythms of old-school TV.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
Cold noodles need a dressing with enough substance to coat every curve and ridge, but enough brightness to keep the bowl from feeling stodgy after a few hours in the fridge.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
This one has shades of the friendly with Gibraltar 12 months ago, which was another stodgy affair and it may be similar this time round at the end of a long season.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2025
Rumor had it that the peanut butter maker’s husband—a stodgy, surly type—shut down the factory after his wife’s death, purely out of spite.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
In recent days, software stocks and other risky assets have been mowed down by artificial intelligence, but stodgier stocks are springing up to replace them among the market’s leaders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Overall, viewers get a ridiculously entertaining and colorful nostalgia trip that may be impossible to believe would have existed in the stodgier 1950s.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
The Star was known as a writer’s paper, often more creative and entertaining than the stodgier Post.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
It was always a more polite but stodgier version of “Crossfire” — a cancelled format co-created by Buchanan.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2019
Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion bursting with peel and raisins.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
The reason lies in LinkedIn’s oldest and stodgiest rule.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
It was the biggest, the stodgiest, the most arrogant.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2021
The oldest and stodgiest — the Vietnam-era B-52 — will go last.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2020
Seems a man named Frank Rosenberg, a Texas oil man, wanted to get into Los Angeles Country Club, the West Coast version of the stodgiest and most exclusive club in the world.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 30, 2020
What unites so many of these shows is a love for that stodgiest of TV ideas: There should be a new story in every new episode.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2019
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