boring
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It’s a film about embracing the craziest friends because they bring excitement to an otherwise boring and overscheduled life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
But it is accurate to say that strategy is adventurous, while logistics can be boring.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Helming says he has fielded interest from companies that want to use his tunnel boring machine for power and fibre optic cables, or pipelines that could transport water, natural gas, or ammonia, for example.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
For a moment, Taylor Detector is an exceptionally boring slot machine.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Which I guess was interrupting, because he and Calista were looking at some boring art book he’d brought in to show her, but I didn’t care.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
The district proposes to make 226 borings and dig 57 test pits into the Earth across 2,500 cubic yards, according to the project description.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
Much of the recent work has involved preparing the beachside site to collect evidence through soil borings and other methods about what caused the collapse.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
On underground projects, engineers and geologists try to foresee what’s below via soil borings throughout a construction site before excavating begins.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2018
The Vancouver, British Columbia-based company wants to use existing roads to access 14 locations to drill test borings to determine the possible value of its copper mining claim.
From Washington Times ● May 26, 2016
And Odysseus took his time, turning the bow, tapping it, every inch, for borings that termites might have made while the master of the weapon was abroad.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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