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as in inconsistency
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as in imbalance
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Recent Examples of unevenness
The flaws shown against Newcastle United seven days earlier — an unevenness in width, pace and insertion — were even more striking in west London.
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Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
With Fields’ unevenness throughout training camp, the Jets may have to lean on their rushing attack to win games.
—Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 17 Aug. 2025
Don’t worry about perfection here—the slight bumps and unevenness add to the charm.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2025
Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
With Fields’ unevenness throughout training camp, the Jets may have to lean on their rushing attack to win games.
—Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 17 Aug. 2025
Don’t worry about perfection here—the slight bumps and unevenness add to the charm.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unevenness
Noun
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According to the company, real-world factors such as dynamic inconsistencies, sensor noise and latency, actuator delays and nonlinearities, and variable ground properties can cause strategies optimized in simulation to slip or destabilize in practice.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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Detection is the biggest hurdle A significant factor in the inconsistency from state to state is that there is no standardized way to measure drug impairment as there is with blood alcohol content.—
Andrew Yockey,
The Conversation,
11 Sep. 2025
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Researchers emphasize the urgent need for habitat restoration and monitoring to address the detrimental imbalances caused by the disaster.—
Real-Time News team,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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This deepening also has an index in the formal features of his poetry—the ambiguity of his pronouns, the firm particularity of his register of images—which teeters between the mundane and the epiphanic, and renders this imbalance itself into view.—
Elaine L. Wang
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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The AlphaEarth Foundations team told IEEE Spectrum that one limitation in Earth observation is the inherent irregularity and sparsity of the data.—
Shannon Cuthrell,
IEEE Spectrum,
15 Sep. 2025
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Nature, in all its exuberant irregularity, was a common passion for Jean Schlumberger and Rachel Lambert Mellon—he the legendary longtime Tiffany & Co. designer, she the philanthropic green thumb better known as Bunny.—
Sam Cochran,
Architectural Digest,
12 Sep. 2025
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The disparity was evident in the Eagles’ 40-22 win.—
Zach Berman,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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Anger has been brewing in the Himalayan nation for years about the country’s worsening youth unemployment and lack of economic opportunities, exacerbated by what many view as a growing disparity between the country’s elite and regular people.—
Sugam Pokharel,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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And the main driver of the inconsistences seems to be due to contractual obligations and profits.—
Jake Frederico,
The Arizona Republic,
21 Apr. 2023
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Very inconsistent with practices, which led to inconsistence with games.—
Percy Allen,
The Seattle Times,
31 July 2018
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Unlike baby boomers who embraced existing institutions to get rich and live a comfortable life, the younger generations do not feel that institutions—which are perceived as cumbersome, hierarchical, and a source of inequality and discrimination—can improve their situation.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
19 Sep. 2025
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By the mid-Aughts, the deindustrializing superpower, committed to forever wars abroad and extreme inequality at home, was ripe for Trumpism.—
Pankaj Mishra,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Its nuclear dimension raises the risk of a nuclear war in the Middle East at a time when the region is rocked by instability and conflict spanning Israel, Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and Syria in particular.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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More instability is likely ahead.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
18 Sep. 2025
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And even newer backup technologies face shortcomings; for instance, visual systems can fail because of cloud cover or when used over water.—
Paul Smith-Goodson,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Following yet another collapse on Tuesday night in which the Dodgers turned a 4-0 lead and no-hitter through five innings into a 9-6 loss, manager Dave Roberts was asked to dissect his bullpen's shortcomings.—
Noah Camras,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Unevenness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unevenness. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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