Example Sentences

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The unsexy boxes that turn high-voltage grid power into the clean, redundant feed a rack of GPUs needs to avoid catching fire on a Tuesday afternoon.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

“We tend to undervalue and I would say underinvest in those unsexy but important capabilities like the oilers, like the auxiliaries, like the tenders. It’s the quiet backbone of American naval power.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Global Payments, 4.7 times earnings, and Fiserv, seven times, are heavily indebted players in a decidedly unsexy part of fintech: processing card payments for merchants.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Despite the line of inquiry for the interview being expressly—you’ll recall—the unsexy business of the flow of classified information, Biden still went down a series of tangential, long-winded monologues about all sorts of things.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2024

They would include policies to produce huge growth in energy efficiency — an unfortunately unsexy solution compared to megascale wind turbines and vast solar arrays.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2023