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Recent Examples of unrepresentative
On university campuses and in living rooms, conversations are less about battles and borders and more about inflation, unemployment, a political system that feels unrepresentative and a future clouded by uncertainty.
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Salman Masood, New York Times, 2 May 2025
This is especially true in cases of algorithmic bias, where faulty or unrepresentative datasets yield discriminatory hiring, lending, or healthcare practices.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Over all, a representative sample of how unrepresentative our view of red really is.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Yet the West either ignores them or dismisses them as unrepresentative.
—Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
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Salman Masood, New York Times, 2 May 2025
This is especially true in cases of algorithmic bias, where faulty or unrepresentative datasets yield discriminatory hiring, lending, or healthcare practices.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Over all, a representative sample of how unrepresentative our view of red really is.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Yet the West either ignores them or dismisses them as unrepresentative.
—Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrepresentative
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But everything changes when a string of gruesome killings—which grow increasingly bizarre, with victims covered in rashes and found in deranged, violent states—involves his young daughter Hyo-jin (Kim Hwan-hee).—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Paxton’s interest in Paul’s plight was bizarre, obsessive and so far beyond normal operations at the attorney general’s office that the agency’s top officials struggled to convey their concerns during the hourslong meeting with two FBI agents.—
Kimberly Ross,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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The combination of strange comments, a clear lack of education and experience, and a disturbing personal history with mental health struggles and domestic problems doomed his campaign.—
Kimberly Ross,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Coon admitted that their daughter has also taken up a strange favorite film.—
Avalon Hester,
PEOPLE,
12 Sep. 2025
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Quantum Technologies Quantum is another ground-breaking field, this one based on those classic ideas of quantum mechanics that seem, to many of us, so quaint and romantic in their theory, but coldly mechanical when applied to computer science.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Sitting in the living room of his quaint two-story suburban home in Atlanta’s Howell Station neighborhood, Chad Murray is doing his best to speak carefully about the new transmission line Georgia Power is building nearby.—
Justin Worland,
Time,
27 Aug. 2025
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Initial unemployment insurance claims last week hit their highest level since October 2021, though the main cause was what could be an anomalous spike in Texas and distortions from the Labor Day holiday.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
11 Sep. 2025
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UFOs are short for unidentified flying objects, which the government now refers to as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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The Dodgers swept Milwaukee in that best-of-three first-round series in 2020 and went on to win the whole thing, albeit in abnormal conditions.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
16 Sep. 2025
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In multiple myeloma, abnormal plasma cells build up in the bone marrow and crowd out healthy blood-forming cells, including red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
14 Sep. 2025
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Red mesh iron bookshelves and traditional Italian kitchen towels suspended like airy curtains from the ceiling add to the quirky interior.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
12 Sep. 2025
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But after Hyundai launched Santro — a quirky looking hatchback, priced right in the comfort zone of middle-class India — there was no looking back.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
11 Sep. 2025
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Join us in celebrating the remarkable life and enduring legacy of Charlie Kirk, an American legend.—
Lauren Green,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
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After exiting Real Madrid in 2021 — spending a remarkable 16 years with the Spanish club — Sergio Ramos spent the next two years hunkered down writing and producing music.—
Griselda Flores,
Billboard,
16 Sep. 2025
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As for filming, Peckham welcomed the atypical acting realities of the motion capture performance.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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That blend of sadness and comedy, and even atypical family dynamics, run throughout a lot of your work.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Unrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrepresentative. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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