twice-told

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Recent Examples of twice-told Such a story told, even twice-told, is always lacking, never filling the whole picture because it is set apart. Jonathon Sturgeon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for twice-told
Adjective
  • Farming takes so long and is so boring, some of us said.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The Clark County Fire Department said that tunnel boring operations had been temporarily halted at the site pending an ongoing accident investigation.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • One player dominating gets tedious very quickly; so does a string of one-time winners.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Look for repetitive tasks, tedious tasks, tasks that nobody wants to do, and tasks that take valuable time away from higher-value work.
    Adam Coffey, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Although the discussion of representation can be tiresome for many who just want to be seen for their talent, Cho gets it.
    Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • How tiresome monogamy, married or otherwise, always seemed to her.
    Judy Berman, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Smith replied that private schools must submit renewal packets every year before they are approved to continue participation in the accounts program, and that the agency compares the new tuition rates against the older rates.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The reversal marks just one example of how Trump is rewriting Republicans’ decades-old playbook on countering Beijing’s influence in the United States and abroad.
    Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • After you’re finished cleaning, rinse with water and dry with a microfiber cloth.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Primary bathrooms, where hair and buildup from products like dry shampoo can leave floors a mess, are another high-traffic area of the house that can benefit from regular sweeping.
    Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Arsenal were distinctly pedestrian in their 1-0 win against Manchester United in their Premier League opener on Sunday, with new signing Viktor Gyokeres still looking out of sync with the rest of team after his $86m move from Sporting Club.
    Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The unusual start time—one that was especially onerous to viewers on the West Coast—limited Woods’ live deliveries to a rather pedestrian 10.8 million viewers.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The sculpture, unveiled by the artist Eric Fischl in 2000 and titled Soul in Flight, is worth pausing to look at, for its instructive power and its indictment of the ponderous slabs of metallurgical debris that litter other stadiums and arenas.
    Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Much of the show is given to ponderous historical segues.
    Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The more prosaic story is classic scientific self-correction.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
  • If sacred means separate, outside of the prosaic flux of things, then this Japanese city is sacred.
    Ed Simon August 18, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025

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“Twice-told.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twice-told. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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