as in safe
unlikely to provoke controversy or offense
uncontroversial legislation, such as designating the cranberry the official state fruit
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Recent Examples of uncontroversial
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker were on hand to give friendly, uncontroversial welcomes.
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
Paul, the Homeland Security Committee chair, sparked widespread discontent at the White House and among Senate Republicans with his move to slice the administration’s border funding request — not to be mostly uncontroversial among Republicans — by more than 50 percent.
—Al Weaver, The Hill, 16 June 2025
Ultimately, given what had gone before, this was an uncontroversial squad.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 6 June 2025
Other changes should be just as uncontroversial for any Republican and certainly any conservative.
—The Editors, National Review, 15 May 2025
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
Paul, the Homeland Security Committee chair, sparked widespread discontent at the White House and among Senate Republicans with his move to slice the administration’s border funding request — not to be mostly uncontroversial among Republicans — by more than 50 percent.
—Al Weaver, The Hill, 16 June 2025
Ultimately, given what had gone before, this was an uncontroversial squad.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 6 June 2025
Other changes should be just as uncontroversial for any Republican and certainly any conservative.
—The Editors, National Review, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncontroversial
Adjective
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Fields slept at downtown bus stops, often gathering with groups or pretending to have a firearm in her coat to stay safe.—
Ashley Hiruko,
ProPublica,
6 Oct. 2025
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No payment data was accessed within the breach, meaning information like credits cards or transaction history was safe.—
James Peckham,
PC Magazine,
6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But the rhetoric has baffled Democrats, who see ER payments as effective and noncontroversial and are unwilling to disavow it.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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His only guest was Glen Powell, a rising movie star so noncontroversial that even his weird promotional non-fling with Sydney Sweeney couldn’t generate much in the way of controversy, shilling for a series about that most American of passions, college football.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Sep. 2025
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