as in illogical
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Recent Examples of unscientific
Trump appears to have gotten his statistic from an unscientific poll on the Telegram messaging service by one of Zelenskyy’s political rivals.
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Alexander Smith, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2025
This is an egregiously unscientific effort that can threaten the lives and basic rights of millions.
—Ginger Cassady, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
But in an unscientific poll, Elon Musk asked people on X what the U.S. should do with the clocks if the time change was canceled.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
The declaration was denounced by many public health experts as unscientific and irresponsible.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
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Alexander Smith, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2025
This is an egregiously unscientific effort that can threaten the lives and basic rights of millions.
—Ginger Cassady, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
But in an unscientific poll, Elon Musk asked people on X what the U.S. should do with the clocks if the time change was canceled.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
The declaration was denounced by many public health experts as unscientific and irresponsible.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscientific
Adjective
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When the world is falling apart, all the illogical perceptions fall away, leaving only what matters standing, and that which matters is no longer veiled by those perceptions.—
Cathrine Todd,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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That such sentimentality can come across in a story as disturbing as Mickey’s may sound illogical.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This whole exercise of proving the absence of antisemitism as a prerequisite to criticizing Israeli government policy is absurd.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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Still, the sexist double standards around pockets have continued to be present in absurd ways.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2025
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Added to the chaos is the underlying rudimentary calculation of tariff levels that have produced wildly uneven and irrational effects on trading partners with no readily discernible policy value.—
Jerrold Lundquist,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The characters are believably upset and irrational for much of the play.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
2 Apr. 2025
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So although these actions may seem fatuous on the surface, the next four years will be about looking for the undercurrents.—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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Second, this rationale for regulation proved to be illogical and fatuous as conceded by U.S. Courts and the Federal Communications Commission in the decades since.—
Carine Harb,
Newsweek,
9 Jan. 2025
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Two years ago — even one year ago — the idea of arranging those two side-by-side atop a rotation and making a serious comparison was preposterous.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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The idea that most third-party studios wouldn’t receive a Switch 2 dev kit until very close to the system’s release window is preposterous, and certainly wouldn’t help Nintendo sell consoles.—
Jason Evangelho,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Amelia soon decides that stupid boys (and humans in general) aren't worth keeping around.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Sharing war plans outside U.S. government systems is the kind of offense that is almost too stupid to commit.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The words were harsh but the logic was not unreasonable.—
George Caulkin,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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This would not be an unreasonable proposition, considering the U.S. already pledged a security guarantee to Ukraine upon its return of all nuclear warheads to Russia by 1996, based on the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances.—
Seung-Whan Choi,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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Witnesses on the flight told authorities Augustin was stomping, yelling, shaking and being incoherent, the document continued.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA TODAY,
13 Mar. 2025
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At some point, the question about free will becomes hopelessly blurred and maybe even incoherent.—
Sean Illing,
Vox,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Unscientific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscientific. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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