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Recent Examples of unpopular
Rebates can also be used to convince the public that an unpopular tax isn’t so bad.
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Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
However, the law was repealed in 1974 for being unpopular and ineffective.
—Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
This is particularly the case if those decisions are unpopular, such as when the Federal Open Market Committee raises interest rates to bring down inflation.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2025
Gerrymandering is also unpopular nationally.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
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Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
However, the law was repealed in 1974 for being unpopular and ineffective.
—Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
This is particularly the case if those decisions are unpopular, such as when the Federal Open Market Committee raises interest rates to bring down inflation.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2025
Gerrymandering is also unpopular nationally.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpopular
Adjective
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At the end of April 2022, the Russian army moved the Kuindzhi Art Museum's entire collection to a museum in the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic, a separatist and politically unrecognized territory annexed by Russia.—
Yegor Mostovshikov,
The Dial,
9 Sep. 2025
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Even in the early years after its publication, the novel’s feat didn’t go unrecognized.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The unprecedented nature of the election leaves a lot of variables unknown.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
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Do not drive around barricades or through water of unknown depth.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Uncommon courage was common on 9/11, from the united passengers on United 93 to the unsung hotel workers at the Marriott World Trade Center who died evacuating guests.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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But Ricard has long been an unsung star within the Ravens organization, reaching five Pro Bowls over the course of his nine-year NFL career.—
Reice Shipley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The season record still is only 36-45, but the low-spending, no-name Fish have climbed out of the NL East cellar ahead of Washington and are now shouting from third-place Atlanta.—
Greg Cote
June 29,
Miami Herald,
29 June 2025
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Philosophy majors from no-name schools do not have the same economic trajectory as computer science grads from Stanford.—
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
Adjective
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After Princeton and military service, he was sent to the Paris bureau, where his scoops and reviews forced designers to alter their view of Women’s Wear Daily as unimportant.—
James Fallon,
Footwear News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Those tests that pick up most cancers tend to pick up other unimportant things as well — and those screening tests that are limited to discovering cancer often miss many people with the disease.—
Cory Franklin,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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For instance, in a now obscure 1944 speech, Franklin Delano Roosevelt argued that the American Revolution remained an incomplete project.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
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Department and team-level metrics expose inefficiency that company-wide averages often obscure.—
Heidi Farris,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Maria’s relationship with Sylvia improves, as well as with the deputy head Sam (Jacob Anderson, completely unrecognizable from his Game of Thrones era), with whom Maria used to be in a romantic relationship.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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Today, Poland's outlook is unrecognizable from its past era of decline.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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To know all the actors, famous to unfamous.—
Daniel Vaillancourt,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2022
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But during this break in the action, a camera scanning courtside spotted Kobe, pleasantly inhabited by an almost unfamous happiness, teaching his daughter about the game.—
Matt Sullivan,
Vulture,
29 June 2021
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“Unpopular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpopular. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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