And events affecting our boringly reliable allies get commented on all of the time.

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That lack is in part a reflection of the boringly professionalised career that politics has become.

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Most Astronomy 101 courses continually pound the idea that our own star is almost boringly average.

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Next up: The Yawning Point, that elusive moment when the interestingly quotidian spills over into the boringly trivial.

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Although this double-majority voting system for the EBA sounds boringly procedural, it could prove to be very significant.

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This, as Adam Smith so boringly pointed out about the pin factory, means that we can gain greater outputs through fewer inputs.

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Certain characteristics--the amount of heating, for instance--betray all but a handful of the bellringers as boringly normal particles, such as cosmic rays.

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Because, to continue being painfully and boringly obvious, this is the definition of who can be sued: a person, whether legal or natural.

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When only sugar is present, the agents' behaviour is boringly predictable.

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When a suitable kick is applied, however, a stream of hot electrons does indeed flow from the metal to the superconductor, and the laws of physics are boringly preserved.

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