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Recent Examples of unrepresentative
On university campuses and in living rooms, conversations are less about battles and borders and more about inflation, unemployment, a political system that feels unrepresentative and a future clouded by uncertainty.
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Salman Masood, New York Times, 2 May 2025
This is especially true in cases of algorithmic bias, where faulty or unrepresentative datasets yield discriminatory hiring, lending, or healthcare practices.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Over all, a representative sample of how unrepresentative our view of red really is.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Yet the West either ignores them or dismisses them as unrepresentative.
—Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
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Salman Masood, New York Times, 2 May 2025
This is especially true in cases of algorithmic bias, where faulty or unrepresentative datasets yield discriminatory hiring, lending, or healthcare practices.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Over all, a representative sample of how unrepresentative our view of red really is.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Yet the West either ignores them or dismisses them as unrepresentative.
—Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrepresentative
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But everything changes when a string of gruesome killings—which grow increasingly bizarre, with victims covered in rashes and found in deranged, violent states—involves his young daughter Hyo-jin (Kim Hwan-hee).—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Paxton’s interest in Paul’s plight was bizarre, obsessive and so far beyond normal operations at the attorney general’s office that the agency’s top officials struggled to convey their concerns during the hourslong meeting with two FBI agents.—
Kimberly Ross,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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The combination of strange comments, a clear lack of education and experience, and a disturbing personal history with mental health struggles and domestic problems doomed his campaign.—
Kimberly Ross,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Coon admitted that their daughter has also taken up a strange favorite film.—
Avalon Hester,
PEOPLE,
12 Sep. 2025
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Quantum Technologies Quantum is another ground-breaking field, this one based on those classic ideas of quantum mechanics that seem, to many of us, so quaint and romantic in their theory, but coldly mechanical when applied to computer science.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Sitting in the living room of his quaint two-story suburban home in Atlanta’s Howell Station neighborhood, Chad Murray is doing his best to speak carefully about the new transmission line Georgia Power is building nearby.—
Justin Worland,
Time,
27 Aug. 2025
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Initial unemployment insurance claims last week hit their highest level since October 2021, though the main cause was what could be an anomalous spike in Texas and distortions from the Labor Day holiday.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
11 Sep. 2025
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UFOs are short for unidentified flying objects, which the government now refers to as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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Researchers from Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark followed 1,200 patients at high risk for ventricular arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms) who already had tiny implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) in their chests.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Unlike traditional software tools that cannot detect unusual activity if legitimate login credentials are used, hardware-level security can detect unusual access patterns—like mass file transfers or abnormal read/write activity—at the physical layer.—
Camellia Chan,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Red mesh iron bookshelves and traditional Italian kitchen towels suspended like airy curtains from the ceiling add to the quirky interior.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
12 Sep. 2025
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But after Hyundai launched Santro — a quirky looking hatchback, priced right in the comfort zone of middle-class India — there was no looking back.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
11 Sep. 2025
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The zoo said parthenogenesis has only been documented in a handful of reptile species worldwide, making this birth even more remarkable.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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And yet in restructuring Patagonia to ensure that its profits are used to protect wild lands, Chouinard accomplished something remarkable, turning a for-profit corporation with $1 billion in annual sales into one of the biggest environmental philanthropies in the country.—
David Gelles,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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As for filming, Peckham welcomed the atypical acting realities of the motion capture performance.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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That blend of sadness and comedy, and even atypical family dynamics, run throughout a lot of your work.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Unrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrepresentative. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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