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Recent Examples of staleness
Consider this a magical opportunity to escape the staleness of fall.
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Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2025
Coach Billy Napier’s team blended play-calling staleness, horrendous clock management, defensive containment issues and overall immaturity.
—Noah White, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staleness
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The film, which screenwriter Rowan Joffé adapted from a 2014 novel of the same name by Lawrence Osborne, seems aware of the orientalist mustiness of this premise without being compelled to subvert it in any meaningful way.—
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Yet recently, residents say the stench and garbage have gotten out of control.—
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Stale air with the faint stench of a long-dead mouse.—
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This is your textbook plea to the DJ to run something that will heat up your romantic prospects, a sunny pop-funk hybrid chronologically situating itself around 1970-something.—
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Even veterans with hundreds of career goals will talk about just needing to see one go in to break out of a funk.—
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As if to prove that it can’t be exceeded in badness, Playdate has both.—
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The garden reeks of rotting figs.—
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Such rote, nakedly procedural appeals inherently reek of moral relativism to the extent they are not grounded at all in any substantive conception of good and bad, or right and wrong.—
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“Staleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staleness. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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