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samey

British  
/ ˈseɪmɪ /

adjective

  1. informal monotonous; repetitive; unvaried

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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She said she got bored with watching soaps when "the stories got a bit samey and a bit similar, all about romance".

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2023

Engagement is one of the platform’s measuring sticks for success, which has motivated the savviest careerists in pop music to voluntarily stretch themselves thin in recent years, releasing over-bloated albums with samey tracklists.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2022

But the movie dilutes its impact with lackluster direction of samey scenes — people in hotel rooms speechifying — and a distracting nighttime soap subplot.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

And this can be a challenge when so much of the internet, and how we access it, can feel so samey.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2018

It’s all so samey, farm after farm, shrines at every crossroad and a community bread oven in every village.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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