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Recent Examples of inapt Beyond the application of arguably inapt legal and regulatory standards, technical and operational challenges may likewise hinder deAI adoption. Charlyn Ho, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025 The result invites obvious yet not inapt comparisons to the work of Terrence Malick, but Bentley’s film—for all its crystalline imagery, its vision of Grainier’s home as a fallen Eden, and its air of metaphysical wonderment—unfolds in a more dramatically direct, compacted register. Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025 As Pettis explains, the problem is one of inapt comparisons. Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025 The visual flair peaks in the first episode, along with the series’ shallow, if not necessarily inapt, insight into life in this particular time and place. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025 Beyond the application of arguably inapt legal and regulatory standards, technical and operational challenges may likewise hinder deAI adoption. Charlyn Ho, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025 As Pettis explains, the problem is one of inapt comparisons. Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025 The visual flair peaks in the first episode, along with the series’ shallow, if not necessarily inapt, insight into life in this particular time and place. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025 The comparison is pungent but inapt: Archival work is not death work. Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inapt
Adjective
  • Screenshot inappropriate gun marketing content and circulate it.
    Sarah Scott, Parents, 9 May 2025
  • Originally a producer on the project, he was fired for cause after at least one incident of inappropriate behavior on Runner that included bullying and yelling at crew.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • Declared mentally unfit to stand trial, he was committed to the Mendota Mental Health Institute.
    Jenna deJong, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 May 2025
  • That figure comprises people found psychiatrically unfit for trial but are stuck on Rikers awaiting a bed in a state psychiatric facility.
    Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • But regulations that apply to traditional markets are unsuitable for digital native assets like crypto and digital assets.
    Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • The vacant land, which was largely unsuitable for agriculture, became an albatross over the next few decades.
    Mark Dent, HubSpot, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But Elmer is equally incompetent there, too, robbing the wrong train, failing at safecracking, miscalculating explosives and getting ignobly killed by lawmen in an Oklahoma shootout in 1911.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 27 Apr. 2025
  • However, problematic ones try to control every outcome, usually out of fear of failure or appearing incompetent.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Common factors that contribute to misconfigurations include: • Human Error: Typing mistakes, syntax errors or incorrect command sequences.
    Alexander Britkin, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • That is the correct decision for her and her game, but also the incorrect decision for all of us at home watching a television program.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Mix Materials The beauty in the unfitted kitchen aesthetic is found in its collected look.
    Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2025
  • The venerable American clan at the center of the narrator’s reminiscences are wholly unfitted to the modern world and no longer endowed with the fortune that one of them brought home long ago on clipper ships.
    Daniel Akst, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
Adjective
  • And while ear piercing is generally safe, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) lists several adverse outcomes to improper piercing and piercing care, such as infection at the piercing site, bloodstream infections, allergic reactions, cuts and tears, and keloid formation.
    Taylor Grothe, Parents, 9 May 2025
  • Most of the improper payments in 2022 were due to unintentional mistakes by state workers or households, rather than intentional fraud, according to an analysis of the data by the left-leaning Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.
    Stephen Fowler, NPR, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • This definition also includes instance in which the victim is incapable of giving consent because of temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity (include due to the influence of drugs or alcohol) or because of age.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 1 May 2025
  • Hampered by this erroneous guidance, health authorities and the American public began to believe that women were physically incapable of producing enough breastmilk.
    Made by History, Time, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Inapt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inapt. Accessed 16 May. 2025.

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