unhistorical

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Recent Examples of unhistorical Saying that ending our 43-year involvement [with] the EU is somehow going to fundamentally change this deep relationship between our two countries is completely unhistorical. Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2016 Well, certainly the most unhistorical. Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022 Interpreting the Qur’an exclusively by reference to its text without invoking outside or later sources is injudicious and unhistorical. . Christopher Carroll, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unhistorical
Adjective
  • Morgan & Morgan, the firm that puts up those annoying Philly billboards, was fined after one of their lawyers admitted to using an AI program that generated fictitious case citations in a legal filing.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Putin cannot refuse a ceasefire, without losing the fictitious moral high ground.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Combs was in good company among the parents of Rosewood, Pa., the fictional setting for Pretty Little Liars' seven seasons of backstabbings and betrayals.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • As a thriller-comedy-drama set in a luxurious (fictional) hotel chain with some of the world’s most beautiful locations as the backdrop, fans are desperate to know where The White Lotus season three will be set.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Black Mirror evokes anthology series like The Twilight Zone and Amazing Stories with speculative, offbeat tales that draw upon sci-fi, thriller, and horror tropes to satirize culture and interrogate moral and ethical quandaries.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Clarity prevents reactive shifts, such as chasing speculative trends or overcorrecting after market downturns.
    Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The movie is based on Colleen Hoover's book of the same name, which is a fictionalized retelling of her family's experience with domestic violence.
    Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Dahmer, similarly, was accused of exploiting the murders in a fictionalized way that some believed even glorified him as a killer in some ways.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • For The Other To Blink Given the view in Europe that Trump is abandoning NATO in favor of the Kremlin, in a hypothetical future conflict with Russia, Europe might worry that the U.S. could cut off spare parts and updates for the F-35, Aboulafia says.
    Scott Neuman, NPR, 19 Mar. 2025
  • And Billups, to cite that hypothetical, might do a great job.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This isn’t just theoretical—Ben & Jerry’s founders have openly discussed buying back the brand from Unilever.
    Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The best theoretical fit thus far is known as the Lambda CDM model, which incorporates both a weakly interacting cold dark matter and dark energy.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • American sportswriter Frank Deford perpetuated the apocryphal story of Leo Seltzer’s invention of roller derby.
    Colleen English, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2025
  • There’s an apocryphal story among J.R.R. Tolkien fans that the fantasy author’s villainous portrayals of spiders were inspired by a childhood incident when a tarantula bit him.
    Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The Erik Wemple Blog asked the Times for another example of an editor’s note apologizing for nonfactual issues.
    Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Yankovic, who wrote the film with its director Eric Appel, noted that the intention is to be satirical and nonfactual.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2022

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“Unhistorical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhistorical. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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