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Recent Examples of unloved
The average size of corporate spinoffs is growing, as CEOs look beyond hiving off unloved divisions and toward more complex, transformative deals.
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Michael Flaherty, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
But will this be the unloved and deeply distrusted authority’s last stand?
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2025
Key considerations for choosing unloved names One criterion worthy of consideration is revenue growth.
—Michael Khouw, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2024
Growth, however, requires us to step out of our comfort zone and face our deepest fears—like the fear of being alone or unloved.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Michael Flaherty, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
But will this be the unloved and deeply distrusted authority’s last stand?
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2025
Key considerations for choosing unloved names One criterion worthy of consideration is revenue growth.
—Michael Khouw, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2024
Growth, however, requires us to step out of our comfort zone and face our deepest fears—like the fear of being alone or unloved.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unloved
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Vanderbilt Profile Strengths: Competitive metrics, no bad losses, headliner wins vs. Kentucky and Tennessee. Profile Weaknesses: No key road/neutral wins, awful nonconference SOS.—
Jim Root,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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My heart was already pounding from the awful climb, but there was a sudden thrill and exhilaration.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
13 Feb. 2025
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Investors were greeted with unpleasant inflation data on Tuesday.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
13 Feb. 2025
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The steam emanating from the hot oats began to cook the egg whites, which gave the dish an unpleasant scrambled egg-like texture.—
Ashia Aubourg,
Outside Online,
6 Feb. 2025
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Yet the disaster is just a short-term synecdoche for the ongoing pollution of land, air, and water that’s depicted and discussed as an appalling yet commonplace enormity throughout.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2025
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The ad, which was presented as a legitimate online apparel site before and during the airing of the Super Bowl, was switched at some point afterwards, and completely outside of our stations control respondents to the commercials were redirected toward the marketing of a wholly appalling product.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
12 Feb. 2025
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With no evidence and with no proof, President Trump recklessly and outrageously blamed Wednesday night’s horrid mid-air collision in Washington on his all-encompassing boogeyman of diversity, equity and inclusion.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
31 Jan. 2025
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Indian stocks appear to be recovering from their horrid start to the year.—
Ganesh Rao,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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There’s also the Ratliff family, consisting of wealthy Southerner Timothy (Jason Isaacs), his pill-popping wife, Victoria (Parker Posey), and their three kids: obnoxious bro Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger), religious studies major Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook) and Lochlan (Sam Nivola), the youngest.—
Meredith Blake,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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Shirley is young and obnoxious, compulsively going live on Instagram and carrying her phone around on a little beaded leash.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
6 Feb. 2025
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San Antonio also unloaded its worst recent mistake, a dreadful contract extension for Zach Collins that would have paid him $18 million next year.—
John Hollinger,
The Athletic,
12 Feb. 2025
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For the Giants, the seats are hotter than ever for head coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen, who return despite last year’s dreadful 3-14 campaign.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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The high school student complainants said in the lawsuit that their families’ First Amendment rights have been violated by the law, which has a much broader definition of obscene material than the one defined by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.—
Nicole Blanchard,
Idaho Statesman,
4 Feb. 2025
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There might be behavioral symptoms that make someone cancel a flight at the last minute because of their panic or decide to take a train for an obscene number of hours to avoid flying.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN,
2 Feb. 2025
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How does this happen, no matter how revolting or nonsensical the trend can be?—
Daniel Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Oct. 2022
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These highly emotional sequences are less riveting and more revolting as they’re primarily used to add shock value, graphically depicting their triggering subject matter.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2022
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“Unloved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unloved. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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