as in unconvincing
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Recent Examples of unpersuasive
Cannon dismissed the unanimous Nixon precedent as non-binding, unpersuasive dicta that could be airbrushed out of the Supreme Court’s opinion.
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Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024
To that point, Padova has thus far found the NCAA’s legal arguments unpersuasive.
—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
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Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024
To that point, Padova has thus far found the NCAA’s legal arguments unpersuasive.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpersuasive
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The visiting Catalans regularly strolled through the first line of pressure that night — with Vinicius Jr and Mbappe unconvincing in defending from the front in a 4-4-2 formation before Barca overloaded the midfield with their technical, creative players.—
Thom Harris,
The Athletic,
8 Feb. 2025
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Action and atmosphere are too poorly supplied for this stab at a noirish retro thriller to emerge as anything but talky, awkward and unconvincing.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
10 Jan. 2025
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But only last week was her death determined to be a homicide after the city medical examiner made the finding in an autopsy that was initially inconclusive.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2025
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But the research is inconclusive, with rounding down also a possibility.—
Russ Wiles,
USA TODAY,
13 Feb. 2025
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Finally, decades of strict criminal responses to drug use have not only proven to be largely ineffective but also dramatically unfair.—
Michael Abrams,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Feb. 2025
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Some of them ended up being very effective (Anthony DeSclafani, Wood), and some of them were ineffective (Aaron Sanchez, Scott Kazmir).—
Grant Brisbee,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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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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Nonetheless, unfounded characterizations of transgender people as terrorists, groomers or mentally unwell have accelerated in recent years, as have state and federal policies aimed at restricting trans rights.—
Odette Yousef,
NPR,
6 Feb. 2025
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Kennedy, whose confirmation hearings began Wednesday, could instead be sunk by his controversial opposition to vaccines and other long-standing public health interventions, like water fluoridation, and unfounded claims about COVID-19.—
Amina Brown,
ABC News,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Unpersuasive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpersuasive. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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