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Adjective
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In the film, a pair of mismatched armored truck drivers (Murphy and Davidson) find their routine cash pickup escalating into chaotic mayhem when they’re ambushed by ruthless criminals led by the savvy mastermind (Palmer).—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
28 July 2025 -
Dating apps felt like a graveyard of mismatched intentions.—
Windsor Johnston,
NPR,
14 July 2025
Adjective
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Nearly half of teachers believe that the professional development courses offered or demanded by their schools are largely irrelevant.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025
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The future of sales is about asking the questions that make your competitors' answers irrelevant.—
B.D. Dalton,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Workers claim the organization has insufficient training, abrupt terminations, and inconsistent wages and raises.—
Maya Bell,
jsonline.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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At the federal level, Shaughnessy emphasized the urgent need to eliminate inconsistent tariffs.—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In 2023, the Supreme Court declared the bill inapplicable.—
Javier Bastardo,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Thus, the commercial speech exclusion was inapplicable, the trial court had erred on that point, and the expressions of the Bucher Defendants were within the scope of the UPEPA's protections.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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Whether this has anything to do with eventually arriving at AGI and ASI is somewhat immaterial.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
5 July 2025
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For me, this was where everything was tipping: the point at which the material brain created immaterial thoughts and images, and the same point reversed, when the computer turned abstract numbers into concrete actions.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Powell quickly read the document and then dismissed it as containing an extraneous line item.—
Tobias Burns,
The Hill,
30 July 2025
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Without the extraneous nuisance of hair, his head felt lighter, as if a heavy burden of worry had been lifted.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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Maybe the team behind The Rainmaker felt that political ire was incompatible with a rejuvenated attempt at Blue Sky television.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Aug. 2025
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The investigation largely focused on Broadcom’s potential to restrict competition by making third-party hardware components incompatible with VMware software.—
Kyle Orland,
ArsTechnica,
24 July 2025
Adjective
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When caterpillars retreat to their cocoons, part of the process of transformation can be aesthetically unbecoming and grotesque.—
Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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There were a lot of memorable performances and moments for the Blue Jackets, who bounced back quickly after having their seven-game point streak snapped in a rather unbecoming outing Monday against the New York Islanders.—
Aaron Portzline,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Misbecoming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misbecoming. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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