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Recent Examples of unadvised
At least four studies, in Canada, Germany and the U.S., have found brokers and advisers often chase what’s hot and dump what’s not, much the way unadvised individuals do.
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Jason Zweig, WSJ, 7 May 2021
Pursuing treatment from a doctor is key because unadvised use of the drugs can be fatal.
—Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 25 Mar. 2020
And given Russia's goals in Syria are different from the United States' goals, sharing such information seemed an odd choice, at best, and highly unadvised, at worst.
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—Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 21 July 2017
Jason Zweig, WSJ, 7 May 2021
Pursuing treatment from a doctor is key because unadvised use of the drugs can be fatal.
—Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 25 Mar. 2020
And given Russia's goals in Syria are different from the United States' goals, sharing such information seemed an odd choice, at best, and highly unadvised, at worst.
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—Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 21 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unadvised
Adjective
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Our soldiers will have to put their lives on the line to defend his reckless decisions.—
Joseph Morton,
Dallas Morning News,
28 Feb. 2026
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This reckless action puts American troops at risk and edges us toward a wider regional war.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
28 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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And, by all accounts, his impetuous pardon of Cuellar may backfire.—
Mary Ellen Klas,
Mercury News,
20 Dec. 2025
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Kelly’s impetuous decision to drop everything and travel abroad forces his loyal team, including publicist Liz (Laura Dern) and agent Ron (Sandler), among others, to join him.—
Eric Andersson,
PEOPLE,
2 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The dispensing of moral instruction is an often tiresome staple of child-friendly animation, but the lessons that Mabel must learn—to be less impulsive, less strident, and more willing to see the good in others—also turn out to be shrewd organizational and negotiating tactics.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2026
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The impulsive reaction to this data is a trap.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Unfortunately, for impatient gardeners, your seeds may not germinate if the soil temperature doesn't suit them.—
David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
7 Mar. 2026
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Facing impatient investors, Sweetgreen soon devised a cost-cutting plan that threatened the very ideals on which the founders promised to never compromise.—
Bloomberg,
Daily News,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Duvall possessed a Brando-like intensity in the Seventies, whether as the coldly strategic Tom Hagen in the Godfather pictures or as Frank Hackett, the soulless, hotheaded executive in Sidney Lumet’s bruising satire Network.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
16 Feb. 2026
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Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder gets the documentary treatment in Matter of Time (February 9), as does one of TV’s hotheaded chefs in Being Gordon Ramsay (February 18).—
Chris Murphy,
Vanity Fair,
21 Jan. 2026
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Whereas the film is madcap and edgy—even bratty—the Wuthering Heights album is sullen and stately, built upon strings and droning electronics.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
24 Feb. 2026
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The biggest night in British film always brings madcap musical performances (Take That!—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
22 Feb. 2026
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The newest season showed Renner's character Mike McLusky confronting a gang war and contending with a headstrong new warden, played by Falco.—
Madeline Bartos,
CBS News,
13 Feb. 2026
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But now that Ifeachor departed the show between seasons, where does that leave the headstrong doctor?—
Raven Brunner,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
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Earthquakes' sudden, rapid shaking can cause fires, tsunamis, landslides or avalanches.—
CA Earthquake Bot,
Sacbee.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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Swift response credited with limiting casualties Davis said the department’s existing deployment in the downtown entertainment district enabled a rapid response.—
Emiliano Tahui Gómez,
Austin American Statesman,
2 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Unadvised.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unadvised. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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