boredom
Example Sentences
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They’ve become monuments to corporate greed — zones of atrophy, boredom and total disempowerment.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
Also, I am afraid your columns do not sufficiently extol the value of work, which Voltaire rightly claimed protects us from the evils of boredom, vice, and poverty.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 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
Millions of brokerage accounts were opened in 2020 and 2021, largely by young men, in a perfect storm of commission-free trading, boredom, stimulus checks and face-ripping volatility.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
For most of those two years, Blake and a small group of prisoners languished in a makeshift North Korean prison camp, plagued with monotony and boredom.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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