unrepresentative

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Recent Examples of unrepresentative The majority of existing datasets are small, unrepresentative, or incomplete. Ulrich Boser, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024 Many lawmakers cast that race as unrepresentative of the trend, noting that Dingell spent months longer than Crockett locking down support. Andrew Solender, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024 And that panel, while unrepresentative of Black America, was perfectly representative of how almost all of the spokespeople in symbolic capitalist spaces are. Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Nov. 2024 Polling purists understandably object to such surveys as unrepresentative and unreliable. W. Joseph Campbell, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for unrepresentative 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrepresentative
Adjective
  • The bizarre clip, reportedly shot with an iPhone, featured West in a dentist’s chair asking people to go to the website.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Certainly, the eccentric characters and bizarre situations in his novels reflect a hallucinatory vision.
    Tom Vitale, NPR, 9 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The win-then-disqualification made for a strange post-race set of circumstances.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Tekashi’s camp then called the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office, which dispatched Bomb Squad officers to investigate the strange parcel.
    Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Judging by some of the bruising tackles on display, bragging rights still matter hugely, but tempers never threaten to boil over, which somehow feels fitting considering the rather quaint ‘Gentlemen — No Swearing Please’ sign hanging on the side of the dugouts.
    Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The days when people lived and died by the Social Register are quaint history.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • This understanding can then be used to automate precise real-time threat containment responses, allowing security teams to stop anomalous activity without disrupting normal business operations.
    Marcus Fowler, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • No broker in the world can sell a leaning tower at twenty-four hundred dollars per square foot, even if the lean is imperceptible to the naked eye, and even though the flaw is not so anomalous.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Amyloidosis is a rare disease where bone marrow produces an abnormal protein called amyloid, according to the University of Kansas Cancer Center.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2025
  • In darker skin tones, abnormal paleness may be easier to detect in the inner mouth and lining of the eyes.5 4.
    Isabel Vasquez RD LDN, Health, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Helped by its Valentine’s Day setting, the quirky hybrid slasher/comedy/rom-com film increased $10 million.
    Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 16 Feb. 2025
  • As usual for Bong, unexpected music choices liven things up, from quirky waltzes to carnivalesque riffs in a Danny Elfman mode.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • These remarkable characters parade, dance, argue and make love.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Reid has firmly established himself as one of the NFL's greatest head coaches, and his remarkable postseason success places him among the elite in the sport's history.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Somers has taken a bit of an atypical path on her way to becoming a professional fighter.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
  • All the things that are not atypical of teenage girls.
    Elizabeth Stanton, Fox News, 3 Feb. 2025

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“Unrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrepresentative. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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