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also blah-blah
1
as in rubbish
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
gave me the usual blah that my manuscript did not meet their current publishing needs but thanks for considering them
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2
as in boredom
blahs plural
the state of being bored
I've just been stuck in the blahs lately
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as in boring
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David McHugh, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
Exercising outside can be a stellar way to shake up a blah routine and reap the amazing benefits of nature.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 8 Aug. 2023
Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 19 July 2024
In his long post-career, Mays provided a comfortable nostalgic link back to baseball’s exciting heyday — before blah analytics and emphasis on astronomical free agent salaries.
—George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
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Noun
That extends a miserable run of economic blahs: The 20 countries that use the euro currency have not shown significant growth since the third quarter of 2022, when the economy grew 0.5%.
—David McHugh, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
Exercising outside can be a stellar way to shake up a blah routine and reap the amazing benefits of nature.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 8 Aug. 2023
Adjective
The depth of pigment and slightly glossy finish ensures there is nothing blah about the person who wears it.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 19 July 2024
In his long post-career, Mays provided a comfortable nostalgic link back to baseball’s exciting heyday — before blah analytics and emphasis on astronomical free agent salaries.
—George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
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Collins was mortified; the conga player was rubbish.Ryan Craig, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
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Seven-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving but surreal world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish into an overflowing house.Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2024
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Dana Taylor: And how did boomers deal with boredom?Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
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To the everyday sort of life, these are empty, almost useless ingredients for anything else, but to create in, to write in, idle time, free time, even boredom, and naivety are really important and can be so powerful.Steve Baltin, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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There’s still so much of this country that is based on the boring parts of governance that the people who show up and speak out can affect.Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
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So, our chats about his vision, strategy, and leadership philosophy for the Ferretti Group in the global-hyper-niche-ultra-luxury-yacht building business are never boring.Bill Springer, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Apprentice suggests that Cohn hastened whatever rot was already present in his protégé, but its early scenes portray the opposite—that Trump, at his core, was simply naive.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
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The material resists rust and rot, unlike metal or wood.Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2024
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In June 2022, downtown Concord became a more colorful place when six murals brought drab buildings to life with bright depictions of wild birds, indigenous culture and futuristic landscapes, each as unique as the artist who created it.Lisa Wrenn, The Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2024
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Hahn is never funnier than when Agatha is trying to summon some of her own swagger while forced to wear Agnes’s drab clothes—a cobra stuck in the mundane form of a hamster.Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024
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That didn’t stop the former president from leaning into the gaffe by donning a garbage worker vest and climbing into a garbage truck to speak with the media at a campaign event earlier this week.Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 1 Nov. 2024
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More:Harris breaks with Biden over 'garbage' comment about Trump's supporters after reluctance to distance herself More:Trump pounces on Biden's 'garbage' comment.Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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If Hallmark’s business model were a Hallmark movie, the logline would be straightforward: Tired of the monotonous dating landscape, a hardworking woman is ready to try something different.Emily Longeretta, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
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That marked the point for me at which Teacup went from tantalizing if never emotionally engaging to thoroughly monotonous.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
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Even a feature-length version of this plot would likely struggle with its lack of ideas, but 10 half-hour episodes feel punishing, well before a finale that offers an uninteresting explanation of the main mystery, and can’t even be bothered to resolve several other running plot threads.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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But the color work on the series isn’t just about pulling off the tricks that every DP would like to make a TV show look a little more appealing — darkening uninteresting blank spaces within a frame, making the color consistent between shots, and smoothing out any variables in the lighting.Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Blah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blah. Accessed 9 Nov. 2024.
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