boredom
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Boredom serves an important purpose -- it signals the need to stop an action and find an alternative project.
From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2024
Boredom sparked a rediscovery of that love as an adult, this time during the unending monotony of pandemic-era lockdowns.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023
"Boredom hangs like a low cloud in the classroom."
From BBC • Feb. 1, 2022
Boredom sometimes calcifies into loneliness, and for Daisy, the birds seemed to fix a problem I didn’t even know she had.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2021
Boredom and routine had taken over, the enemies of discipline.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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