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Recent Examples of prosy
By the start of the 20th century, instead of offering a few prosy sentences that gestured vaguely toward ingredient amounts, American recipes increasingly began with a list of ingredients in precise, numerical quantities: teaspoons, ounces, cups.
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Helen Zoe Veit, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
Helen Zoe Veit, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prosy
Adjective
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In the face of that chilling, prosaic nightmare, all Perkins can do is laugh.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
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Mazen al-Hamada’s relatives learned of his death in a more prosaic way: photographs from the military morgue circulated on social media.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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My mornings began with a monotonous dread that would persist throughout the day.—
Charley Locke,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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People are less likely to feel threatened by a tool that tackles monotonous administrative tasks than one that drafts an entire document.—
Hunter Steele,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Ideally, containers should be within reach of your garden hose, which is less tedious than lugging heavy watering cans all over the place.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
25 Feb. 2025
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The big picture: Ad agencies can have a tedious and highly manual expense management process that's prone to human error.—
Lucinda Shen,
Axios,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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For years, companies like Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott, and IHG primarily focused on consistent, but also largely uninteresting, hotels.—
Chris Dong,
AFAR Media,
13 Feb. 2025
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Activities were repetitive or uninteresting, new bosses were built around individual characters which was a poor format.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Dance sections lacked charm; lyric passages were spiritless; the klezmer episodes in the third movement were strictly goyish.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2024
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Yet the club dropped the contest in spiritless fashion, 6-2.—
Julian McWilliams,
BostonGlobe.com,
12 Aug. 2023
Adjective
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The whole thing also looks pretty—budget and midrange phones tend to be super boring, but the Pixel 8A has a smart design with a matte rear texture.—
Julian Chokkattu,
WIRED,
28 Feb. 2025
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Buck is a loquacious, glad-handing oaf who has a boring way with a witty story, and is marked for death.—
Fred Schruers,
IndieWire,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But the film never achieves the heights of the classic actioners that clearly inspired it, and its overuse of familiar genre tropes (for once, can’t the main villain be uncharismatic, like so many in real life?) soon becomes wearisome.—
Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Feb. 2025
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Plus, a tiny bathroom with a lukewarm shower and scratchy towels can make even the best hotels feel wearisome rather than wonderful.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Jan. 2025
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Now, with Valentine’s Day just around the corner and a slew of singles who are similarly fatigued with endless swiping, hookup culture and tiresome first dates, a proliferation of alternatives are starting to pop up.—
Emily Burns,
WWD,
11 Feb. 2025
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That was a core part of the original series and the sibling rivalry stuff can get tiresome pretty quickly.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2024
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“Prosy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosy. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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