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Recent Examples of unreceptive
This is not likely to be effective given that conspiratorial thinking tends to become so entrenched that the believer comes to be entirely unreceptive to reasons.
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Rafael Perez, Orange County Register, 12 Apr. 2024
This film is a prime example of how the sci-fi genre helps creators to pass along (often very preachy) messages to otherwise unreceptive audiences.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2023
Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met with Niger's junta members in the capital this week but called them unreceptive to her demands to restore Niger's democracy.
—Ellen Knickmeyer and Tracy Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2023
Republican voters, especially the MAGA supporters, have been unreceptive.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
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Rafael Perez, Orange County Register, 12 Apr. 2024
This film is a prime example of how the sci-fi genre helps creators to pass along (often very preachy) messages to otherwise unreceptive audiences.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2023
Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met with Niger's junta members in the capital this week but called them unreceptive to her demands to restore Niger's democracy.
—Ellen Knickmeyer and Tracy Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2023
Republican voters, especially the MAGA supporters, have been unreceptive.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreceptive
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President Trump after briefly offering condolences and sharing plans to investigate a deadly plane collision outside D.C., took partisan hits against former presidents Obama and Biden.—
Avery Lotz,
Axios,
30 Jan. 2025
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After many years of partisan politics, increasingly divisive language, finger-pointing and inflammatory speech have contributed to an environment of fear and uncertainty, affecting not just political dynamics but also the priorities and perceptions of young people.—
Yalda T. Uhls,
The Conversation,
30 Jan. 2025
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Some people associate a frugal spender with a narrow-minded person who is a tightwad, a cheapskate, a penny-pincher, and worse of all an outright scrooge.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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People are going to take things and run with them and be narrow-minded or whatever or take something out of context.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
19 Dec. 2024
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Pre-training bias happens when a model is trained on biased or incomplete data.—
Zeyi Yang,
WIRED,
31 Jan. 2025
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The lawsuit also says the financial impact statement prepared by the Division of Financial Management is biased and full of confusing legal jargon.—
Nicole Blanchard,
Idaho Statesman,
31 Jan. 2025
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The sudden shift flummoxed the music industry, which had inherited a profoundly prejudiced business structure from the totalizing predation of Jim Crow.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Olivet President Jonathan Park and Vice President Walker Tzeng said that the probe was racially and religiously prejudiced and was prompted by news reports from Newsweek, which university leaders claimed to be inaccurate.—
Colleen Shalby,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Dec. 2024
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If Vonn’s implant does loosen, doctors can fix it, with either another partial or full knee replacement.—
Peggy Shinn,
Outside Online,
31 Jan. 2025
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That led to the federal judge’s temporary, partial block of the plans to freeze aid.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN,
29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The paradox of intolerance says the one thing to be intolerant of is intolerance itself.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2025
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Inspector Generals' offices must be staffed by people who are constitutionally intolerant of injustice.—
Lucy Lang,
Newsweek,
9 Jan. 2025
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We were just expected to be OK with it, to shove down our discomfort, our embarrassment, our fear, because standing up for ourselves would mean being labeled as intolerant or hateful or bigoted.—
Jackson Thompson,
Fox News,
31 Jan. 2025
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Religious groups and some Republican politicians, including Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, defended his right to his opinion and others slammed his comments as bigoted and anti-gay.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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