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Chang’s decision to be defiantly unpolitical resonates with current-day readers, said Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, a scholar of Chinese literature and culture at Duke University.
—Lisa Movius, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
Weller certainly endures — his status as silver-foxed icon remains strong across the Atlantic, his stint as a councilman is endlessly torn apart by Jam purists and is now of the not-unpolitical, pastoral singer-songwriter ilk.
—Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
For now, the court’s distinctive public image as a non-polarizing, unpolitical institution in a deeply polarized political world is very much in question.
—Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 21 July 2022
Limiting the governor's ability to reorganize the state education board would prevent political influence over a supposedly unpolitical board, supporters have said.
—Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 30 Jan. 2020
Fan culture around comics is already fraught, and even moves that are baldly unpolitical — like casting black actors, or letting a woman be an action hero — have been met with resistance from some of Marvel’s hardcore fans.
—Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 3 July 2019
Instead her calm presence—inoffensive, stable, unpolitical even—has allowed the radical changes introduced by her predecessor to settle in, giving the cautious German public time to digest them.
—The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
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Word History
First Known Use
1780, in the meaning defined above
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“Unpolitical.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unpolitical. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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unpolitical
adjective
un·po·lit·i·cal
ˌən-pə-ˈlit-i-kəl
: not interested or active in politics
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