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It’s possible to do things that are dull and just take up too much time.

STEPHEN KING ON HOW TO PROPERLY ADAPT HIS BOOKS AND WHICH PROJECT WENT ‘ENTIRELY OFF THE RAILS’TRAVIS ANDREWSOCTOBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POST

Now it just sort of feels like a dull and expected subtext to, well, everything in our lives.

WITH ‘ROADKILL,’ PBS INVITES YOU TO WATCH A NARCISSIST POLITICIAN WHO GETS AWAY WITH EVERYTHING. HOW DOES THAT GRAB YOU?HANK STUEVEROCTOBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POST

That feeling only escalates as you navigate a confusing, and so-far dull, main story line.

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He even took on a process often dismissed as the dullest thing imaginable in his essay “Watching Paint Dry,” written for a Harvard undergraduate journal.

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As more chips accumulate, the edge can quickly dull, especially if the microscopic structure of the steel is not uniform.

TOWARD BETTER BLADESTATE RYAN-MOSLEYOCTOBER 20, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

Other sea urchins are less menacing, with short, dull spines.

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Season seven hasn’t worked that out yet, so when it tries to do a classic low-concept Gilmore plot, the result is deadly dull.

EVERY EPISODE OF GILMORE GIRLS, RANKEDCONSTANCE GRADYOCTOBER 6, 2020VOX

It also dulls the company’s edge with features that, more often than not, come to other Android devices.

GOOGLE NOW HAS THREE MID-RANGE PIXEL PHONESBRIAN HEATEROCTOBER 1, 2020TECHCRUNCH

Not only would it be mind-numbingly dull to review millions of cat images, it’d take us years or more to do what these programs do in hours or days.

DEEPMIND’S NEWEST AI PROGRAMS ITSELF TO MAKE ALL THE RIGHT DECISIONSJASON DORRIERJULY 26, 2020SINGULARITY HUB

The dullness of that time has gone, and the roads are tolerably travelled to-day.

THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPER

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