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Taking in three Tests and one pink-ball Sheffield Shield match, Starc's day-night record at the Gabba - 15 wickets across seven innings at 31.26 - is unspectacularly normal, however.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025

After using that experience to beat Miami and eliminate Buffalo on the road, Kansas City played solidly if unspectacularly in dispatching the Ravens.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 28, 2024

Specifically, Allen has flashed as the Commanders’ punt returner — a role that unspectacularly belonged to Milne last season.

From Washington Times • Aug. 24, 2023

Paige, 25, rose steadily if unspectacularly as a woman through modeling’s ranks, appearing on a cover of Vogue Thailand and in abundant catalogs, it was after coming out as nonbinary that their career took off.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2018

Though the film as a whole draws us into a community understood to be very local and small, the world and America intrudes unspectacularly.

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2018