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Recent Examples of unreceptive
Hippler appeared unreceptive to their arguments that the IGG techniques violated Kohberger's constitutional rights and questioned whether the defendant even had standing to challenge the investigatory tactic.
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Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025
If the seller is unreceptive, speak with a local attorney about how to enforce the contract.
—Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2024
And now, Democrats warned, targeting nominees' résumés risks reinforcing the image that the party is unreceptive to the beliefs of everyday Americans about what ails the country.
—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
Minority students tended to leave school for reasons including inadequate high school preparation, unreceptive and alien campus environments and inadequate career counseling.
—Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 29 Feb. 2024
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Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025
If the seller is unreceptive, speak with a local attorney about how to enforce the contract.
—Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2024
And now, Democrats warned, targeting nominees' résumés risks reinforcing the image that the party is unreceptive to the beliefs of everyday Americans about what ails the country.
—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
Minority students tended to leave school for reasons including inadequate high school preparation, unreceptive and alien campus environments and inadequate career counseling.
—Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 29 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreceptive
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The churlish comments appeared to have come from conservative activists, or from bots on social media that generate partisan messages, still chafing that Burrows ascended to the speaker's desk with the support of more Democratic House members than Republicans.—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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The maps were drawn on a partisan basis, as allowed by law Paxton said.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 July 2025
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Its opposite—illiberal—means stingy, narrow-minded, intolerant, provincial, unenlightened, and using government to insure the flourishing of only the few.—
Harper’s Magazine,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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That is something that has always struck me as strange and narrow-minded.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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But this integration unleashes unintended consequences: flawed automation, biased outputs, compliance pitfalls and reputational damage.—
Steve Wilson,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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Boasberg was just exposed for being biased against Trump last week.—
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 July 2025
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The tweets, which NASL argues prejudiced jurors, came after NASL was denied D2 recognition.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
13 May 2025
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When children were told a story about new pupils at a fictional school and asked to recount the story later, there were significant differences in what the most prejudiced children remembered, as opposed to the most liberal children.—
Matt Richtel,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Ford is counting on offering a variety of powertrain choices such as extended range electric vehicles, partial zero emissions vehicles and a full range of hybrids across its lineup, to win over consumers, according to Farley.—
Leah Olajide,
Freep.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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With about 70 million people enrolled in Medicaid and 65 million in Medicare, even partial expansion could affect a significant share of the population.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Aug. 2025
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Although many enjoy the company of other dogs, some are intolerant of them.—
Lisa Bloch,
Mercury News,
22 July 2025
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Through careful assessments, Miller and Afrin found that people most likely to have mast cell activation syndrome were also highly likely to be chemically intolerant.—
Kate Raphael,
Discover Magazine,
23 June 2025
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Doctor The rhetoric around Mamdani has been described as racist, bigoted and Islamophobic.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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Only the Ku Klux Klan could enjoy such bigoted and nonsensical statements.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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“Unreceptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreceptive. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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