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Recent Examples of unpropitious
Handing the baton to Harris at this unpropitious time for Democrats is like Napoleon’s handing off his military command to Marshal Ney to conduct the disastrous French retreat from Moscow in 1812, featuring 500,000 French casualties.
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Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024
Here are a handful of quick Thesaurus pulls to help paint a picture of how the unit played: unpropitious, cataclysmic, demoralizing, execrable.
—Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2023
The exhausted refugees are greeted by a functionary of the Relief Committee with the unpropitious nickname Statistics Babu.
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
That will be an unpropitious setting for launching a network: if the teams are unclear on the goal, the risk of confusion is considerable.
—Steve Denning, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
JoyFish sits in a strip mall in an unpropitious space that has seen several restaurants come and go.
—Tan Vinh, The Seattle Times, 11 July 2017
Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024
Here are a handful of quick Thesaurus pulls to help paint a picture of how the unit played: unpropitious, cataclysmic, demoralizing, execrable.
—Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2023
The exhausted refugees are greeted by a functionary of the Relief Committee with the unpropitious nickname Statistics Babu.
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
That will be an unpropitious setting for launching a network: if the teams are unclear on the goal, the risk of confusion is considerable.
—Steve Denning, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
JoyFish sits in a strip mall in an unpropitious space that has seen several restaurants come and go.
—Tan Vinh, The Seattle Times, 11 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpropitious
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However, within a week, his favorable rating climbed to 42 percent, while unfavorable views dropped to 47 percent, narrowing the gap to -5 points.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
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Warmer temperatures can result in unfavorable changes to traditional habitats where bats have migrated.Noël Fletcher, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
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Johnson campaigned against an unpromising backdrop: nearly ten years of austerity cuts under successive Tory governments, doubts about his flamboyant character, and fratricidal division within his party over Brexit.Pippa Norris, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2020
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That led the Initiative in an unpromising direction.Steve Denning, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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The cyclical nature of symptoms can leave you feeling hopeless and out of control.Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 27 Nov. 2024
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His performance, inhabiting the sad, addicted, stricken, sick and hopeless romantic Lee is already being lauded as Oscar season begins.Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2024
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Wedged between the cheerless skyscrapers of Third Avenue and an uncharming stretch of Second, just blocks north of the bro bars of Murray Hill, is a row of nine townhouses.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Aug. 2024
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Election polls may seem cheerless, inscrutable, and wrapped in data and murky terminology.W. Joseph Campbell, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
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And in 2008, he was named an artistic advisor to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, a post some urged him to reject in protest over China’s dismal human rights record.Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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The economics-laden speech comes on the heels of a dismal jobs report Friday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that showed the economy added just 12,000 jobs in October when analysts had predicted job growth would be closer to 108,000.Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Nov. 2024
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Target is heading into the holiday season with a gloomy outlook, with the retailer reporting its sales and profit fell short of analysts' expectations and lowering its earnings forecast for the current quarter.Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
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Television news always seems like a series of gloomy, negative stories.Jason Richmond, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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In a somewhat morbid twist, Bryon was not the only Bee Gees drummer to die this month.Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024
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As that night unfolded with a kind of morbid curiosity — was this really happening?Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2024
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Rookie guard Jared McCain has emerged as a bright spot in an otherwise dreary start to the season, but Kelly Oubre Jr., Andre Drummond, Kyle Lowry and Eric Gordon have all been disappointments to some extent.Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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The later bulbs follow, their cheer and warmth saving us from the dreary depths of a cloudy, gray, Ohio Valley winter.Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 15 Nov. 2024
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“Unpropitious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpropitious. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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