uncalculated

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Recent Examples of uncalculated Businesses that jump on the AI bandwagon without proper planning are sure to make uncalculated expenditures, operate inefficiently or become the target of dissatisfied consumers who expect responsible AI use. Moulik Shah, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025 Cohen was inspired by child-like, uncalculated sketches, challenging computers to create free-minded lines and shapes. Gerui Wang, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025 Menon said the man once known as Putin’s chef, because of his lucrative restaurant businesses, was not thought to be a gambler who would take uncalculated, suicidal risks. Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023 What’s more unfortunate for a child (or anyone, for that matter): pain inflicted intentionally, with calculation, or pain inflicted by an uncalculated, compulsive urge to dominate and hurt? Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023 The Category 1 Nicole did something more damaging than fling debris of costly boardwalks and bury parking lots under uncalculated tons of sand. Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2022 Egypt’s first response is always uncalculated. Armani Syed, Time, 15 Nov. 2022 For me, dictionaries are a portal into that kind of uncalculated knowledge-seeking. New York Times, 13 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncalculated
Adjective
  • What had once either gone unconsidered or been managed at the campaign level is now being discussed as a core element of corporate strategy.
    Jordan P. Kelley, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • And Wiles, a shrewd lobbyist based in Florida, seldom makes unconsidered moves.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 16 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • Correlations between age and upper teeth are relatively unstudied.
    Jeff Wilson, Outdoor Life, 11 Mar. 2026
  • But a big question remains unstudied, Gesselman says: How do people's appraisals of these experiences change across the life cycles of their relationships and across their own life?
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • The air rang with random alarms; the soft surfaces were mottled with mystery stains.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The sentence, arrived at via a sequence of random numbers thrown out by the group itself, begins the eighth paragraph of page 432 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
    Séamas O'Reilly, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • All of this is a bit haphazard, and none of it is very deep or revealing.
    Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Lawmakers have accused the Justice Department of withholding too many files and criticized the agency for haphazard redactions that exposed intimate details about victims.
    Alanna Durkin Richer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • 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.
    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
Adjective
  • Ament’s lawyers are now pushing to withdraw his guilty plea, saying he’d been ill-advised by his previous counsel.
    Victoria Le, Oc Register, 28 Feb. 2026
  • But his goalie interference penalty in the opening period was ill-advised.
    Arpon Basu, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026

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“Uncalculated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncalculated. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.

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