boredom
Example Sentences
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But one day, the excitement of the AI trade will come from plunges rather than melt-ups, and when that happens, you will yearn for boredom.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
“Digital environments become the easiest and most reliable way to regulate mood, boredom, or stress, so they gradually start to crowd everything else out.”
From Slate • May 12, 2026
But its humor is rooted in that hazy 1970s sense of drift, when boredom and isolation start to blur together and nothing feels especially urgent, even when it probably should.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
Envy, boredom and other unpleasant emotions have value that can be too easily overlooked.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
In order to keep Franklin’s officers and men from succumbing to boredom during their long winter months in the ice, the Erebus and the Terror each had libraries containing some three thousand books.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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