uncompetitive

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Recent Examples of uncompetitive But the head-to-head loss to the Bruins in November and an uncompetitive loss to UConn in February ultimately edged UCLA ahead of South Carolina. Chantel Jennings, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025 In the final, Shaq’s team beat Chuck’s team 41-25 in a wholly uncompetitive contest. Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2025 He was followed as president by the hard-line Ebrahim Raisi, picked in 2021 in an uncompetitive election. Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025 Chinese officials said the new rates effectively render U.S. goods uncompetitive — and that any further tariff increases from Washington would be treated as economically irrelevant. Catherine Baab, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for uncompetitive
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Adjective
  • The Celtics finished the series with the fourth-best offensive rating of all playoff teams, the third-best defensive rating and the third-best net rating, trailing only top seeds Oklahoma City and Cleveland, who both breezed through noncompetitive first-round sweeps.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Its more salient byproduct was the destruction of market forces, with the rise of noncompetitive firms; macroeconomic distortions in the form of inflation and debt; and the entrenchment of a chronically arbitrary state.
    JAVIER CORRALES, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Yet, Doyle was cooperative and even allowed investigators to search his truck and take photos.
    Chris Young Ritzen, CBS News, 10 May 2025
  • The entrepreneur visited several cooperative groups and spoke directly with the women who farm ingredients and produce shea butter in the country.
    Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 9 May 2025

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“Uncompetitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncompetitive. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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