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monotonous

[muh-not-n-uhs] / məˈnɒt n əs /


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We’re all familiar with workplace efficiency, where every task must beat the clock and “skill and creativity” are reduced to “repetitive, monotonous tasks, without the beautiful compensation of singing along.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

At first, ceramics was just an escape from the monotonous copywriting work Stringer dreaded.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

I used to feel that time spent devoted to improving your body was fruitless or monotonous.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 11, 2025

That’s enough to cycle in three or four dinners over the course of a quarter — plenty to be useful, but not so much that it becomes monotonous.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2025

She weaved dreams in time to the soothing monotonous clicking.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith




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