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Recent Examples of unreflective
The frozen official arrangements for international order are increasingly unreflective of the global distribution of material power.
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Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2022
The chapter is, on the whole, as brusquely unreflective as its title suggests.
—Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 24 Nov. 2022
The point of the book isn’t to solve the case or bring Kenny to justice, but to systematically reveal the paralyzing sinkhole of injustice that dissolves all hope and all strategies of resistance into a flat, unreflective goo.
—Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
Cage turns its unreflective dramatic form and unchallenging narrative conventions into a kind of living nightmare, which bypasses the movie’s mediocre ideas and trivial plot and raises it—if only a few fleeting moments at a time—into the realm of the extraordinary.
—Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021
The composition of state legislatures is unreflective of the overall population, according to research from New American Leaders, a group that works to involve immigrants and first-generation Americans in politics.
—Eleanor Lutz, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2022
The one problem the team saw was that the reflective layer didn't make solid contact with the unreflective one when it was unrolled, which limited the amount of heat that could transfer between the two.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
Develop approaches for appropriate clinical use of AI in combination with human expertise, experience, and judgment, and discourage overreliance on, or unreflective trust of, algorithmic recommendations.
—John D. Halamka, STAT, 20 Mar. 2022
During a 2011 search, divers working for Deep Ocean Search encountered a small, unreflective object near the coordinates of the ship that had been left by German submarine records and the ship’s own crew.
—The Editors, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2015
Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2022
The chapter is, on the whole, as brusquely unreflective as its title suggests.
—Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 24 Nov. 2022
The point of the book isn’t to solve the case or bring Kenny to justice, but to systematically reveal the paralyzing sinkhole of injustice that dissolves all hope and all strategies of resistance into a flat, unreflective goo.
—Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
Cage turns its unreflective dramatic form and unchallenging narrative conventions into a kind of living nightmare, which bypasses the movie’s mediocre ideas and trivial plot and raises it—if only a few fleeting moments at a time—into the realm of the extraordinary.
—Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021
The composition of state legislatures is unreflective of the overall population, according to research from New American Leaders, a group that works to involve immigrants and first-generation Americans in politics.
—Eleanor Lutz, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2022
The one problem the team saw was that the reflective layer didn't make solid contact with the unreflective one when it was unrolled, which limited the amount of heat that could transfer between the two.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
Develop approaches for appropriate clinical use of AI in combination with human expertise, experience, and judgment, and discourage overreliance on, or unreflective trust of, algorithmic recommendations.
—John D. Halamka, STAT, 20 Mar. 2022
During a 2011 search, divers working for Deep Ocean Search encountered a small, unreflective object near the coordinates of the ship that had been left by German submarine records and the ship’s own crew.
—The Editors, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreflective
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The fact that she was sent home first (and met her elimination with a characteristically flippant and dismissive attitude).EW.com, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2024
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The five words that make up the album title aren't random or flippant.Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 16 May 2024
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Beetlejuice dabbles in other goofy alternatives such as a matador outfit and an afterlife customs-officer uniform.Emma Fraser, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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Put a game with a goofy feel, a corporate dystopia, and complex systems into early access.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2024
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Díaz de la Portilla called the allegations false, and said the lawsuit is politically motivated and frivolous.Susan Merriam, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
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What was once the norm may no longer be applicable, but that doesn't mean young people are being frivolous with their money.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
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The company enlisted Donald Duck’s scatterbrained cartoon uncle, Prof. Ludwig Von Drake, in a video on votedisney.com to make its case that Disney’s current board members are up to the job.Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
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Meanwhile, Hudson turns up her ditz-o-meter to 11, twirling and screaming her way through a performance that should remind Hollywood of her singular scatterbrained talents.Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
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But Russians are also considered by their leaders as an unthinking mass that must blindly follow their leader.Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2022
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There’s the interest in Britney Spears and pop icons who had been assumed to be vacant, unthinking ingénues.Brandon Tensley, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
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Donald Trump engages in sort of thoughtless insane tariff policy that ends up in prices going up, but jobs not being created in the United States.NBC News, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2024
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Cash is also seen as thoughtless and low-effort, says Julian Givi, associate professor of marketing at West Virginia University.Allie Volpe, Vox, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Unreflective.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreflective. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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