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Recent Examples of unreceptive
Minority students tended to leave school for reasons including inadequate high school preparation, unreceptive and alien campus environments and inadequate career counseling.
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Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 29 Feb. 2024
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.
—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
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Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 29 Feb. 2024
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreceptive
Adjective
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Results also fell along partisan lines, with 76% of Democrats and 54% of independents saying their situation is getting worse.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Matt Shupe is communications director for the California Republican Party, meaning his job is seeing that partisan hopes spring eternal.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 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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Additional allegations included the denial of religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates for military personnel, biased treatment of Christian Foreign Service Officers, and efforts to suppress Christian expression in federal schools and agencies.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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The government, Cramer asserted, is biased against Apple and Nvidia, the latter of which designs semiconductors that have been highly in demand across the world.—
Julie Coleman,
CNBC,
21 Apr. 2025
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This feature empowers users to opt into generating free and fair content, minimizing prejudiced outcomes and promoting inclusivity.—
Antara Dave,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Although campuses witnessed a spike in antisemitic incidents after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, people who attend universities are significantly less prejudiced against Jews than the overall population is.—
Jonathan Zimmerman,
New York Daily News,
14 Apr. 2025
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Karim, 29, says snail harvesting has proved to be profitable, beneficial and much in demand -- one of many Tunisians who say the mollusks are providing a partial solution to the nation's 40% youth unemployment rate.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Apr. 2025
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Schopper's store was allegedly selling two human skull fragments for $90, a human clavicle and scapula for $90, a human rib for $35, a human vertebrae for $35 and a partial human skull for $600, the affidavit said.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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And as the film builds toward the inevitable heartbreak and clash with intolerant family members, the emotion needed to carry such heavy subject matter simply isn’t there.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
30 Jan. 2025
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Some individuals—many more than have allergies to milk—are intolerant to it, meaning their bodies struggle to digest dairy products, usually due to milk sugar called lactose.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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There is perhaps no one with direct access to the president who has been as outwardly and vociferously racist and bigoted.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2025
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At its worst, her rhetoric is bigoted and myopic, perpetuating antiblack stereotypes in her psychosexual analysis of racial hierarchy in the United States.—
Audrey Wollen,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Unreceptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreceptive. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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