indiscriminating

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indiscriminating
Adjective
  • Avoid both uncritical enthusiasm and reflexive opposition.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • The economic crisis that hastened New Labour’s demise had nothing to do with overspending and everything to do with its uncritical acceptance of twenty-first-century financial innovation and its excesses.
    Jonathan Hopkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 May 2015
Adjective
  • The kind of person, in other words, who these days tends to start a college career—typically at an unselective school—but all-too-often ends up dropping out.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2012
  • The cult film Idiocracy (2006) imagines a future in which Americans' mental capacities have been degraded by generations of pop culture, junk food, and–how to put this delicately–unselective breeding.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 1 Mar. 2022
Adjective
  • But never fear, undemanding kids will probably get on board for this anyway as a time killer.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 16 July 2025
  • National defense in McKinley’s day largely meant preventing invasions—an undemanding task, given the country’s peaceful neighbors and oceanic moats.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • The program tried to learn from every hand — even the bad hands that were doomed to fail — and ended up making mostly random moves.
    Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 29 July 2025
  • The final product is 12 songs long that turn the focus from random external objects to singer Blair Tramel’s personal experiences in the world.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • But the study said many students, parents and school officials felt the roll-out of the policy was haphazard and that enforcement has been inconsistent.
    Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 24 July 2025
  • Economists and trade researchers say the haphazard nature of the trade war is compounding the longer-term pressure on US manufacturing.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • The pleasure Warner brings to the exchange reflects just how much his character has transformed from an aimless teen afraid to fail into an adult who recognizes that trial and error are part of life.
    Laura Bradley, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2025
  • Their aimless biking around and goofing off are two of many signs that the social order of Eddington is crumbling under the weight of COVID restrictions.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 July 2025
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“Indiscriminating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indiscriminating. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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