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Recent Examples of unrepresentative
The United States should also begin repairing its increasingly unrepresentative electoral system.
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Charles A. Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
Research increasingly shows that local planning meetings are deeply unrepresentative, with participants skewing older, whiter, more likely to be a homeowner — and therefore more likely to support measures that prioritize their property values and the status quo.
—Rachel Cohen, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Everything that happens in Tastemaker Season is determined by small, entirely unrepresentative bodies: a few dozen New York journalists at the NYFCC, tiny juries of creatives at the Gothams.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2024
The majority of existing datasets are small, unrepresentative, or incomplete.
—Ulrich Boser, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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Charles A. Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
Research increasingly shows that local planning meetings are deeply unrepresentative, with participants skewing older, whiter, more likely to be a homeowner — and therefore more likely to support measures that prioritize their property values and the status quo.
—Rachel Cohen, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Everything that happens in Tastemaker Season is determined by small, entirely unrepresentative bodies: a few dozen New York journalists at the NYFCC, tiny juries of creatives at the Gothams.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2024
The majority of existing datasets are small, unrepresentative, or incomplete.
—Ulrich Boser, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrepresentative
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The esoteric will never sit completely comfortably in the mainstream, because that’s the point of it: to be unusual, bizarre, absurd.—
Eliza Goodpasture,
ARTnews.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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So many of the characters on this show speak with such bizarre, precise dialogue that can only make sense in the Severance world.—
Josh Wigler,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Mar. 2025
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Sure, the plot’s kind of a mess, but warrior Alice is an empowering turn while Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter’s big-headed Red Queen are splendidly strange.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2025
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The movie business and the television business are strange.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Avoiding pressure from her Taiwanese immigrant parents, future doctor Waverly Liu (Andrea Bang) forgoes a prestigious fellowship to spend the months before her residency in an aggressively quaint Canadian town with her artist aunt.—
Josh Bell,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2025
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Judging by some of the bruising tackles on display, bragging rights still matter hugely, but tempers never threaten to boil over, which somehow feels fitting considering the rather quaint ‘Gentlemen — No Swearing Please’ sign hanging on the side of the dugouts.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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The wealth division's near-miss was reported to regulators and the company has since set up a tool to help vet large, anomalous payments and transfers, according to the report.—
Bhanvi Satija,
USA TODAY,
4 Mar. 2025
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Other Extended Features In addition to monitoring your credit card and bank accounts for anomalous transactions, Bitdefender alerts you to possible fraudulent transactions in your investment accounts.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
22 Jan. 2025
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This trend is not abnormal because consumer confidence among Republicans was even worse during some of President Biden’s term.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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This can help determine if there is any abnormal growth.—
Julie Scott, MSN, ANP-BC, AOCNP,
Verywell Health,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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These early quirky roadside attractions of the 40s and 50s included things like Cypress Gardens, citrus grove viewing towers, and zoos.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
22 Mar. 2025
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Her interests extend to topics such as human evolution, psychology, and quirky animal stories.—
Jenny Lehmann,
Discover Magazine,
21 Mar. 2025
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Medium-full, this has an effortless entry on the palate, beautiful complexity and very good, but not too high a level of acidity; there is excellent persistence and a remarkable elegant finish.—
Tom Hyland,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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It’s been remarkable how much the Company has grown and succeeded over that period.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2025
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Many came to this country to flee the civil war in their homeland, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, but my family’s arrival was somewhat atypical.—
George B. Sánchez-Tello,
Rolling Stone,
23 Mar. 2025
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Still, McCann has carved out a distinct campaign identity, if one that is not atypical of Republicans.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Unrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrepresentative. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.
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