longsome

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Recent Examples of longsome But his longsome speech also brimmed with movement love—and the companion call to culture-war arms. Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2021
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Adjective
  • These services actively monitor and submit removal requests to hundreds of data broker websites, saving you hours of tedious work.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
  • Instead of the tedious tasks, many AI tools target high-level strategy, marketing or client-relationship work; tasks that employees want to keep human.
    Moin Roberts-Islam, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, the series seems determined to prove that age is just a number by forcing its leads, now including Choudhury and Parker, to act as if 50 is the new (and very stupid) 30.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2025
  • Jurassic Park, based on the Michael Crichton best-seller, is an evolutionary joke: Man, the master of the universe, has become mere flesh, consumed by animals allegedly too stupid to survive.
    David Denby, Vulture, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • The main reason Jacksonville is so boring, FinanceBuzz found, is that much of its population is thinly scattered across the city.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025
  • GoPro has also dropped a white version and a forest green version if black is too boring for you.
    Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Difficulty breathing Irregular heartbeat Cardiac arrest (heart attack) Adults 19 and older should not take more than 350 mg of magnesium per day to avoid side effects and reduce the chance of toxicity.10 7.
    Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 11 July 2025
  • Cape Florida Light The Cape Florida Light, in Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park on the tip of Key Biscayne, is the oldest lighthouse in the state.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • In a sense, interacting with AI should not feel like a monotonous, copy and paste-type relationship, White says.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 2 July 2025
  • Conscripts have described it as monotonous, disorganized and often irrelevant to modern warfare: a combination of indoor lectures, hours of waiting around, and outdated ceremonial drills.
    Will Ripley, CNN Money, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • Then, hold off on watering again until the soil is dry.
    Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 5 July 2025
  • Then plant ones that prefer dry soil, such as junipers, sedums, and yuccas elsewhere.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 5 July 2025
Adjective
  • The whales often appear unbothered, turning gently toward swimmers or drifting by in slow, graceful passes.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 July 2025
  • Now, in the new study, researchers have gathered data that supports the theory that the demise of tropical forests, and their slow recovery, limited carbon sequestration – a process where carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and held in plants, soils or minerals.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 5 July 2025
Adjective
  • But all the dark wood furniture and an uninteresting light fixture did little to make this an inviting space for dinner.
    Meghan Holloran, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2025
  • There is a belief in some circles that an acrobatic save is a result of a goalie not properly playing his position, and the best goalies make simple, uninteresting saves because they’re positioned properly to cut off the angle of a shot.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025

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“Longsome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/longsome. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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