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Recent Examples of unrepresentative
Although known for an unrepresentative workforce, tech companies embraced diversity initiatives, especially after the Black Lives Matter protests that followed the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.
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Joseph Menn The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
21 Jan. 2026
When left- and right-wingers agree that the United States is unrepresentative, that represents a mandate for disruption—from Trump in 2024 to Mamdani in 2025.
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Will Johnson,
Time,
1 Jan. 2026
Business within the neighboring countries and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region is also at stake, with regional leaders observing that an unrepresentative election process would detract from economic confidence in Myanmar and affect cross-border commercial ties.
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Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
22 Dec. 2025
Ferocious opposition Supporters of the president might pooh-pooh these results as unrepresentative.
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Jamelle Bouie,
Mercury News,
8 Nov. 2025
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Joseph Menn The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
21 Jan. 2026
When left- and right-wingers agree that the United States is unrepresentative, that represents a mandate for disruption—from Trump in 2024 to Mamdani in 2025.
—
Will Johnson,
Time,
1 Jan. 2026
Business within the neighboring countries and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region is also at stake, with regional leaders observing that an unrepresentative election process would detract from economic confidence in Myanmar and affect cross-border commercial ties.
—
Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
22 Dec. 2025
Ferocious opposition Supporters of the president might pooh-pooh these results as unrepresentative.
—
Jamelle Bouie,
Mercury News,
8 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrepresentative
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When Aaron Paul’s Jeff attempts to make a suspicious deposit, the bank teller (a game Nina Dobrev) demands to be in on the deal, in the sort of neo-noir twist that could suggest a rich film world populated with bizarre freaks of all stripes.
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In the canon of DC Comics, Comet is truly a bizarre character.
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Informal Beyblade battles are popping up in strangest of places, with players huddling in parks, gyms and shopping malls.
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The falseness of the medium, though, jibed with the falseness of most attempts, throughout American history, to make sense of this enormous, strange man.
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Revisiting that article in the age of Musk the trillionaire feels almost quaint.
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The official kickoff temperature was a quaint 83 degrees.
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The problem is, mainstream science and society have been slow to move away from the narrative that all animals copulate only for reproduction, any same-sex activity is purely anomalous (and unnatural), and every species is male-dominated.
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The resulting metacrystals were designed to handle multiple incoming waves, different angles, two polarizations, and multiple functions, including anomalous reflection, transmission, and absorption.
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In this context, when screening healthy asymptomatic people who aren’t at high risk, the chance at an ideal screening result of identifying abnormal tissue that can be eliminated is very low.
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The abnormal heat has been driven by the onset of El Niño, a natural climate pattern characterized by unusually warm waters along the equatorial tropical Pacific Ocean.
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Rather than succumb to the misery of its subject matter, Union County is about the quiet, tedious, and remarkable work that is getting and staying sober — the final product a testament to all that can be achieved.
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These creative calculations suggest a grand total of about 20 million species of insects, many of them with behaviors and physical adaptations and remarkable lives scientists today can only dream of discovering.
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Then, drive to nearby Mitchell, just over an hour away, to visit the quirky and fun attraction that is The World's Only Corn Palace.
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The series showcases his quirky humor and his appetite for the unpredictable.
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The couple happily sells artworks on payment plans, a practice not unheard of in the gallery business, but generally atypical.
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Prosecutors chose to put the case before a grand jury to charge it, an atypical move for county court.
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“Unrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrepresentative. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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