bored

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If those Lakers — combustible and bored but built better than every other team on the planet at the time — could turn the triple play, so can Roberts’ drama-free superteam.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

"It feels like a game that, for the right player, could be played for thousands of hours without getting bored," he wrote.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

“When people read it, I would ask three questions: ‘Were you ever bored?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

I was bored to tears watching Mayweather-Pacquiao a decade ago, but I won’t be able to resist when they tussle blandly in September.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

The instant I saw the log a plan jumped right out of the hollow end and bored its way into my monkey-troubled mind.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls