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Recent Examples of unromantic
The system is simple, if unromantic: One partner proposes through the app, and the other is sent a notification.
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Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
But engagement is often seen as a highly emotional and symbolic act and asking the recipient to sign a legal document in connection with receiving the ring may feel transactional or unromantic.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
There are some unromantic reasons why fall can smell so intoxicating.
—Lauren Mazzo, SELF, 8 Oct. 2024
Camille Peri’s engrossing A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson recounts in some detail the very unromantic odyssey that led Fanny to her meeting with Louis.
—Phyllis Rose, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2024
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Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
But engagement is often seen as a highly emotional and symbolic act and asking the recipient to sign a legal document in connection with receiving the ring may feel transactional or unromantic.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
There are some unromantic reasons why fall can smell so intoxicating.
—Lauren Mazzo, SELF, 8 Oct. 2024
Camille Peri’s engrossing A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson recounts in some detail the very unromantic odyssey that led Fanny to her meeting with Louis.
—Phyllis Rose, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unromantic
Adjective
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There’s a gentle, unsentimental warmth to this novel that feels like a balm in times like these.—
Constance Grady,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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But an unsentimental assessment of the regional landscape offers some sense of how Trump could proceed.—
Suzanne Maloney,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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This cannot be explained only by logical arguments or dry legal language.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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To the objective eye, the return of David Moyes as Everton manager was not a logical move.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Beyond that, Acheampong’s rapid rise and equally precipitous fall in the first two weeks of January lent itself to the more cynical notion that Maresca might have wanted to send a message to Chelsea about the need for defensive reinforcements in the winter market.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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Perhaps most perplexing about Smash, though, is its weirdly cynical, ungenerous take on the Bombshell herself.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Rajula Srivastava, for contributions in harmonic analysis and analytic number theory, including contributions to the problem of counting rational points near smooth manifolds.—
Alex Cramer,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Apr. 2025
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The individual leader faces a prisoner's dilemma where the rational choice for personal advancement conflicts with the collective interest.—
Nate Bennett,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Spectators got wind of the sensible footwear concealed by the Fiesta finery and began demanding to see the shoes.—
Jill Robbins,
Southern Living,
16 Apr. 2025
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The only sensible pathway to being an AI Continent would be to promise that AI innovation is the highest priority.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Ars wrote more about why this is a reasonable path forward last September.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
9 Apr. 2025
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Ovechkin’s 52 in a high-scoring 2005-06 season feels like a reasonable benchmark for modern snipers, and even that’s tough.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Everyone in the studio nods along to Paco’s tough-minded flexes and mafioso folktales.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
11 Apr. 2025
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There are no Cooper Flagg’s on St. John’s, but there are all these tough-minded and talented players so much fun to watch, RJ Luis Jr. and Zuby Ejiofor and Kadary Richmond and Deivon Smith, who powered through the Big East Tournament with a shoulder injury.—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
18 Mar. 2025
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The retaking of public space for some of our most cherished social functions was a godsend that kept a lot of people sane and was a boon for small businesses even after things started reopening.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
16 Apr. 2025
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Toss in the idea of eternal repetition, of being condemned to relive a single experience in that loneliness is enough to make a murderer out of the most rational, sane individual.—
Steve Greene,
IndieWire,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Unromantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unromantic. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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