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Recent Examples of unchildlike
The recent wave of bans comes as many Republicans, in their opposition to gun control, climate science, food stamps, public education, and other social services, work assiduously to render the lives of American children as unchildlike as possible.
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Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unchildlike
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The mission for his successor starts with reconfiguring the team’s personality and asking for much more from the many highly experienced internationals within it.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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It isn’t projected to increase next year, either, and as a result, the agency has had a difficult time keeping experienced officers, who move on to better-paying jobs with local police agencies.—
Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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Might the oversized love throw pillow be a knowing wink to the Cirque du Soleil show of the same name?—
Catherine Dunwoody,
Forbes,
17 Dec. 2024
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The receptionist watches her leave with a knowing look — there is more to come here.—
Christina Grace Tucker,
Vulture,
12 Dec. 2024
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Modern devices are equipped with sophisticated hardware and software to monitor key aspects of battery health, including temperature, voltage, and current.—
Tim Bajarin,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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As exclusion laws intensified during the late nineteenth century, Chinese migrants adopted increasingly sophisticated strategies to circumvent them.—
Jane Hu,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2025
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Designers like Mike Amiri, for example, brought vanity to the fore in a collection that looks more worldly than Casablanca and less compromising than recent Tom Ford.—
Julian Randall,
Essence,
25 Jan. 2025
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Picaresque, amusing, and brisk, this is a worldly hangout novel of 21st-century manners.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
26 Dec. 2024
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Berlin, like any cosmopolitan city, houses so many variegated communities, and I was drawn to writing a character who can navigate the worlds of different milieus.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
16 Jan. 2025
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Its stylish interiors, including 24 guest suites, reflect the cosmopolitan vision and aesthetic sense of Anna Podini, who used modern and contemporary elements to accentuate the house’s prestigious past.—
Ann Abel,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Best Packing Essentials Deals For frequent travelers, packing smart is important, and these products can make all the difference.—
Rosie Marder,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Jan. 2025
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Instead, the Flow 2 truly shines with these smart features.—
Ben Sin,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Crucially, they are grounded in real-world experiences, from a recent exchange with worldly-wise restaurant waitresses in Bordeaux exemplifying trust and collaboration, to the coaching of top CEOs over the past 20 years.—
HEC Paris Insights,
Forbes,
25 Oct. 2024
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Heather Alicia Simms and Vanessa Bell Calloway are both sharp, witty, and poignant without sentimentality as the play’s two matriarchal figures, the formidable Missy Judson and Idella Landy, the wry, worldly-wise housekeeper who essentially raised Charlie.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
16 June 2024
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The next decades will witness, for the first time, the full impact of one-child families on adult Chinese society.—
Henry A. Kissinger,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Mar. 2012
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At first, the dynamic seems ambiguous: closer to that between a mom and her barely adult son than a wife and her husband.—
Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
15 Nov. 2023
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“Unchildlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unchildlike. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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