How to Use unrepresentative in a Sentence

unrepresentative

adjective

• Check it out, and notice how unrepresentative indicates that this person has lived in the Bronx, Chicago, and New York.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2012
• The US Senate is, by design, a grotesquely unrepresentative body that amplifies the power of small states at the expense of voters in big states.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 12 Sep. 2018
• But many Democrats for years have knocked both states as unrepresentative of the party as a whole, for being largely White with few major urban areas.
  — Kyle Morris, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2023
• And the suit claims that an unrepresentative School Committee is unresponsive to the needs of Black and Latino students.
  — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2021
• The season’s first trophies are determined by a small, unrepresentative body of New Yorkers, some of whom are my co-workers.
  — Vulture, 27 Oct. 2023
• These titles are deeply unrepresentative of the texts that typically emerged from binders’ offices and printing chapels and that filled the stalls of booksellers and the pockets of readers.
  — Adam Smyth, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
• But in other ways, the case is wildly unrepresentative.
  — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
• Asked about 209 Times’ treatment of the grand jury findings, Sanchez attacked the panel as unrepresentative of the community.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
• In addition to the unrepresentative sample size, most of the studies Makary and Daniel cite in their article were not designed to measure the number of medical error deaths.
  — Molly Stellino, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
• Only two Black women have served in the whole history of the Senate, which is, bluntly stated, wildly unrepresentative and a disgrace.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• The key is that all that that will entail is an alignment of the public and the personal, because many whites already sequester themselves in a world which is highly unrepresentative, just as many Asians, blacks, and Mexicans, etc., do.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2012
• The nearly all-white jury — an unrepresentative sample of a county that is more than a quarter Black — must reach an unanimous decision on whether each of the defendants are guilty of murder.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• My guess is that this will continue to produce extreme, unrepresentative, and unfit nominees for the most powerful office in the world.
  — Jay Cost, National Review, 11 Dec. 2017
• Because the Senate, which gives the average voter in Wyoming 70 times as much weight as the average voter in California, is a deeply unrepresentative body.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2020
• In the past, studios often wasted numerous work hours preparing E3 demos for June, whether the timing made sense or not, which led to lost development time, long hours, and sometimes unrepresentative demos.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2023
• But this observation is unrepresentative of most locations in the solar system, since it is biased by our proximity to the Sun.
  — Amir Siraj, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2021
• My own initial hunch is that the national media is very unrepresentative of America.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2012
• Handy could make a compelling case for his write-in effort by arguing that party conventions are unrepresentative of the general electorate.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2022
• The first is algorithmic bias, which comes from poor or unrepresentative training data.
  — John Asquith, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• Like the 968, this particular LT1 truck us as unrepresentative, with lackluster motor, grumpy drivetrain, and a bucket-of-bolts feel.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 12 May 2020
• That would merely be to replace the wishes of a historical elite with those of an equally unrepresentative contemporary group.
  — Kenan Malik, The New York Review of Books, 9 Sep. 2020
• But given their season-long inability to get out of their own way, those probabilities feel unrepresentative of a team that in just eight days went from an inside track on a postseason berth to one that is clinging to the last vestiges of hope.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• Like Penn State, Oklahoma State is coming off a performance that was unrepresentative of its typical form.
  — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• This may be especially true for studies about new phenomena such as emerging variants, which are more likely to be based on small and unrepresentative samples.
  — Chenery Lowe, STAT, 24 Jan. 2022
• This isolation of the military shifts the burden of service to a small, unrepresentative segment of society, and removes the impetus for Americans to pay attention when their country goes to war.
  — Andrew Swick, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2017
• Iowa, which is majority white, has increasingly been dinged by some Democrats as unrepresentative of the party's larger electorate.
  — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2022
• The current leadership contest, however, has resulted in greater awareness of how unrepresentative the House of Commons is.
  — Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 20 July 2019
• Some critics dismiss the endorsements as unrepresentative of the electorate.
  — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 22 Oct. 2020
• The Last Frontier is in the middle of an experiment that has confused voters, popularized fringe candidates and could lead to unrepresentative outcomes.
  — Sarah Montalbano, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• The acronym was first coined in an influential 2010 paper to describe the wildly unrepresentative populations that many psychology studies have long relied on.
  — Connie Chang, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024