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- adj. idiomatic Excessively boring, tedious, or dull; repetitive; of an activity, etc., lacking any interest or variety that might serve as intellectual stimulation.
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“Colton Harris-Moore, now 20, showed no reaction as the sentence was delivered by a judge who took pity on his bleak upbringing at the hands of an alcoholic mother and a series of her convict boyfriends - a situation she described as a "mind-numbing absence of hope.”
“And whether these drinks generally deserve as much celebration as the mind-numbing array of lively designations attached to them suggests is another matter.”
“I was going to have to embrace the mind-numbing terror, the inner coward that I had become.”
“He had grumbled to Mick Lowe about being held captive in the woods and forced to suffer forty-eight hours of mind-numbing tedium, but he was quietly thrilled by the privilege of visiting the presidential retreat.”
“We are dealing with a complete range from exploitation, physical, psychological, sexual in some areas to carrying very heavy loads, to being exposed to chemicals…to working long hours…to working in repetitive tasks, to working in isolation…young children require that brain stimulation, that social stimulation and if they are isolated in mind-numbing repetitive types of work, it stunts development, said Thomas.”
Voice of America: Millions Of Children Working In Hazardous Forms Of Labor
“If you are spending all your time in mind-numbing activities, it is time to stop those and “wake up.””
“The nation's diplomats are drowning in paperwork, the State Department's inspector general says, churning out hundreds of mind-numbing reports every year that are too long, too expensive, hard to understand and nearly impossible to track.”
“Then the fist-pumping/mind-numbing chorus of "BEAT DAT BEAT UP!" became the Washington Capitals' post-game victory song, as Dan Steinberg chronicled over on the Sports Bog.”
“The fist-pumping, mind-numbing chorus of "BEAT DAT BEAT UP!" became the Washington Capitals' post-game victory song.”
“Now she and the other forward-thinking CIOs need to make the next big step - to go beyond the mind-numbing cultural confines of their respective field centers and implement NASA-wide solutions.”
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