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Recent Examples of unready
But readiness is usually an advantage, especially when your opponent is adamantly unready.
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024
About a quarter are unready to express an opinion of either.
—Gary Langer, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2024
Subsequent polls showed a reality Biden was unready to accept: Vice President Kamala Harris was outperforming him.
—Philip Wegmann, Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2024
Struck by the social upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s, unready for the academic rigor and still finding himself, Watson often was uncomfortable in and out of the classroom even as his golf continued to flourish and develop.
—Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2024
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024
About a quarter are unready to express an opinion of either.
—Gary Langer, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2024
Subsequent polls showed a reality Biden was unready to accept: Vice President Kamala Harris was outperforming him.
—Philip Wegmann, Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2024
Struck by the social upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s, unready for the academic rigor and still finding himself, Watson often was uncomfortable in and out of the classroom even as his golf continued to flourish and develop.
—Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2024
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“Unready.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unready. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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