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as in harmful
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as in impractical
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as in impolite
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Recent Examples of unhelpful
There’s a thin line between being helpful and being unhelpful.
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Becket Adams, National Review, 5 Jan. 2025
Distancing may also protect your emotional well-being in relationships that feel unsalvageable or even harmful to be in, but can be unhelpful in conflicts that could deeply benefit from even a single, albeit uncomfortable, conversation.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
That's where, for me, all my insecurities come from, is my head telling me messages about myself, which may not be true or just unhelpful.
—Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
Still, these narratives are unhelpful at best and potentially dangerous at worst.
—Ella Cerón, Allure, 6 Dec. 2024
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Becket Adams, National Review, 5 Jan. 2025
Distancing may also protect your emotional well-being in relationships that feel unsalvageable or even harmful to be in, but can be unhelpful in conflicts that could deeply benefit from even a single, albeit uncomfortable, conversation.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
That's where, for me, all my insecurities come from, is my head telling me messages about myself, which may not be true or just unhelpful.
—Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
Still, these narratives are unhelpful at best and potentially dangerous at worst.
—Ella Cerón, Allure, 6 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unhelpful
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In an October 2022 article in the Montreal Gazette, Bryn Austin, a professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, highlighted how BMI can lead to harmful outcomes.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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Market intervention is always and everywhere harmful simply because markets are people.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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On top of that, Los Angeles is set to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, which may serve as a looming — albeit impractical — deadline for recovery.—
Denise Chow,
NBC News,
22 Jan. 2025
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Developing advanced tools entirely in-house is often impractical for financial institutions.—
Rahim Harji,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Many filmmakers try to disguise their less socially acceptable prejudices, their impolite fears, dislikes and worse, but Lynch always seemed unafraid or maybe uninterested or just unaware about what others thought of his uglier visions.—
Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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One of the myths Dunlap tackles in her book is that talking about money is impolite.—
Katy McFee,
Forbes,
12 Dec. 2024
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And in the real world, government actors try every trick possible to evade an unfavorable judgment.—
James S. Burling,
National Review,
23 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Anxiety is mounting that U.S. President Trump might seek to quickly end the war in talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on terms that are unfavorable to Ukraine, or once again refuse to defend European allies who do not boost their military budgets.—
Lorne Cook,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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The TikTok Effect This past weekend demonstrated users' willingness to switch platforms when TikTok became unusable late on Saturday night.—
Esat Dedezade,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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On Saturday evening, a few hours before the ban took effect, TikTok became unusable for U.S. users.—
Haleluya Hadero,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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Perhaps a bored retiree at home one New Year’s Eve will spot thoughtless kids shooting off fireworks one year.—
Penny Abeywardena,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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The hearing swung from thoughtless to scandalous when one representative suggested that the murderous hawk was a better mascot for Planned Parenthood than for New Hampshire.—
Casey Cep,
The New Yorker,
28 Dec. 2024
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Mother Nature exploded in Los Angeles this month with the most damaging wildfires in the city’s, and likely the nation’s, history.—
Carmen Balber,
Rolling Stone,
17 Jan. 2025
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The deficit hawks said the package must be paid for by other changes to the budget — a stipulation that infuriated Republicans from New York and New Jersey, where the storm was most damaging, and triggered an internal fight within the GOP that benefited Democrats politically.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
16 Jan. 2025
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Without that essential training to help surmount powerful systemic barriers, the kit would have been useless—and in that sense, the job is still woefully unfinished.—
Sheila McClear,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2025
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Esoteric knowledge of the parks, essentially useless anywhere else, is suddenly incredibly useful.—
Darryn King,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Unhelpful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhelpful. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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