monotonous
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As a part-time designer at a clothing company this year, she offered to look into using AI to help with the monotonous work of resizing product images.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
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
Slowly the camera pulls back to reveal an interior window, and then the back of a man’s head in silhouette, as our protagonist watches the monotonous procession.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
It can get a little bit monotonous and a little bit tedious.
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2025
He’d tried to get Jesper to use it up on the farm, but the work had been too monotonous.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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