unreceptive

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Recent Examples of unreceptive This film is a prime example of how the sci-fi genre helps creators to pass along (often very preachy) messages to otherwise unreceptive audiences. Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2023 Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met with Niger's junta members in the capital this week but called them unreceptive to her demands to restore Niger's democracy. Ellen Knickmeyer and Tracy Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2023 Republican voters, especially the MAGA supporters, have been unreceptive. David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023 Against the tide again, with a new album of personal and political liberation Kanye West’s latest album, Donda, was dropped (the industry term) into an unreceptive environment skeptical of West’s recent public statements and his nonconformist, uncelebrity-like political stances. Armond White, National Review, 3 Nov. 2021 See all Example Sentences for unreceptive 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreceptive
Adjective
  • To dismiss concerns about it as some kind of partisan obsession.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The winner of the race will determine partisan control of the county's five-member board, and represent the South County area while weighing in on spending for the county's $8 billion budget.
    Andrew Keatts, Axios, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • People are going to take things and run with them and be narrow-minded or whatever or take something out of context.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The art world was dismissing the popular reception of Photorealism with a similarly narrow-minded explanation: Ordinary people, whose experience was being represented, liked it.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • However, with inadequate orchestration and data training, AI’s outcomes will quickly deteriorate and can lead to a host of issues such as incorrect, skewed, or biased results, as evidenced in the above examples.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • In his announcement, Zuckerberg laid blame on the legacy media, fact-checkers and Meta’s own employees, calling them politically biased.
    Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The sudden shift flummoxed the music industry, which had inherited a profoundly prejudiced business structure from the totalizing predation of Jim Crow.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Advertisement Olivet President Jonathan Park and Vice President Walker Tzeng said that the probe was racially and religiously prejudiced and was prompted by news reports from Newsweek, which university leaders claimed to be inaccurate.
    Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Ode to Lucy’s Pelvis Adrienne Gruber O wondrous one, your bipedal swag, terrestrial locomotion, partial appendages revealed, brain a soft sponge, size of an acorn, still waiting for that growth spurt 3.2 million years later.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
  • In total, at least 24 school districts have announced full or partial closures, according to the LA County Office of Education.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Today another Russian leader, intolerant of the reality of a Ukraine independent from Mother Russia, has made the eradication of Ukrainian identity a prime objective of Russia’s nearly three-year-old war on the country.
    Howard LaFranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The regulations were designed to prevent intolerant environments that hinder learning.
    Orlando Mayorquín, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Get Into the Holiday Spirit by Watching Mariah Carey Bake Christmas Cookies Famous for its iconic title song, 9 to 5 follows Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda as a trio of fiery secretaries who topple the tyranny of their sexist, bigoted boss (Dabney Coleman).
    Lauren Sanchez, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Two Hindu Americans who made presidential runs—Tulsi Gabbard and Vivek Ramaswamy—have already endured a litany of bigoted attacks.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024

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“Unreceptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreceptive. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.

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