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Discover LudwigThe phrase "going stale" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that has become uninteresting, outdated, or no longer fresh.
Example: "The marketing campaign was innovative at first, but it's now going stale and needs a refresh."
Alternatives: "becoming outdated" or "losing freshness."
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The reckonings of history are going stale.
Is freshers' week going stale?
It was the smell of those sheets, cool, unwashed — like something I really wanted, going stale.
But about seven years ago, she felt things were going stale.
Soggy Sunday mornings plonked atop a foldaway chair, sandwiches going stale while nothing happens very slowly?
(You can store them in the freezer to stop them going stale).
Personally, I tend to bag mine up in order to stop it going stale.
In the process she also helped rescue a talent show format that was in danger of going stale.
A year later Ovechkin was, according to the New York Times, "trying to keep his game from going stale".
The idea is to keep the grounds from going stale or rancid, but refrigerators and freezers are full of odors that can wind up in the cup.
Despite their political differences, Mr. Garment saw Nixon as a powerful figure, a man who could help him to pump energy into a law career going stale.
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