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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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They have plenty of bowling options but should target a left-arm seamer as they currently have quite a samey attack with several right-arm quicks.

From BBC Mar. 23, 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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