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Recent Examples of unpersuasive
To that point, Padova has thus far found the NCAA’s legal arguments unpersuasive.
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Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 July 2024
Lefkow found many of the defendants’ assertions unpersuasive.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 2 July 2024
Instead, TikTok paid lip service to transparency by embarking on Project Texas, an unpersuasive project meant to assuage fears about Chinese spying by moving TikTok’s U.S. user data to data servers owned by the American company Oracle.
—Kevin Roose, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The argument made by Paramount’s lawyers — that the monopoly existed only in the DOJ’s mind — proved unpersuasive.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
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Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 July 2024
Lefkow found many of the defendants’ assertions unpersuasive.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 2 July 2024
Instead, TikTok paid lip service to transparency by embarking on Project Texas, an unpersuasive project meant to assuage fears about Chinese spying by moving TikTok’s U.S. user data to data servers owned by the American company Oracle.
—Kevin Roose, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The argument made by Paramount’s lawyers — that the monopoly existed only in the DOJ’s mind — proved unpersuasive.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpersuasive
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Despite his defense, the jury found his story unconvincing, leading to his conviction on espionage charges.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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By Abby Wilson published 21 November 2024 Jaguar’s ultra-modern, electric-only and uncharacteristically offbeat rebrand has so far proved unconvincing and, for many, confusing.Abby Wilson, theweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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Follow-up studies—there haven’t been many—have been inconclusive.Yasemin Saplakoglu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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Fingerprint testing on the pages was conducted in 1997, but according to The Daily Camera, the results were inconclusive.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 3 Dec. 2024
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Failure, however, might render the Digital Euro an ineffective compromise—too timid to drive meaningful reform and too weak to compete on the global stage.Jon Helgi Egilsson, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Besides the potential irritation that can come along with using too many actives (or trying one too many TikTok trends) at once, layering on the wrong combo of products can inactivate skin-care ingredients, therefore rendering the product ineffective.Victoria Moorhouse, Allure, 12 Dec. 2024
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Christie’s theory of the case isn’t entirely uncompelling.Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
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In our view, the current arguments — that the benefits outweigh the risks — are surprisingly uncompelling.Francis S. Collins, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2019
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This charge, no less than a modern-day blood libel, is just the latest attack in Amnesty's longstanding campaign of lawfare against and vilification of the State of Israel, having previously accused the Jewish state of the equally unfounded charge of apartheid.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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Warrior Essentials is one of many companies that trade on unfounded theories about the dangers of vaccines, which have proliferated in the alt-right social media landscape since the pandemic — ideas that are not backed by science.Aria Bendix, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Unpersuasive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpersuasive. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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