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Recent Examples of unevenly
Airlines are responding cautiously, trimming schedules and adjusting prices in ways that experts say will ripple unevenly across the market but ultimately affect nearly every type of traveler.
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Rio Yamat, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
As retail costs rose unevenly across the country, some California drivers saw gas prices as high as $9 a gallon.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
If the soil starts bone dry, water may run through unevenly, leaving parts of the root zone dry.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2026
Such an uneven structure could only survive if the star’s magnetic field were both extremely strong and unevenly distributed.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 5 Apr. 2026
Event-betting markets flourish in ambiguous or unevenly-enforced legal environments.
—Kelli María Korducki, thehustle.co, 3 Apr. 2026
That’s bad news for everybody, but the domestic consequences of the war are likely to ripple unevenly, and in the process undermine one of the country’s primary engines of economic growth.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
The global semiconductor supply chain is unevenly distributed, with key capabilities concentrated in East Asia, where different segments of production, from fabrication to assembly, are highly developed.
—Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
The fossils were unevenly distributed, clustered in certain areas, with some buried in clay deposits.
—Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2026
Rio Yamat, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
As retail costs rose unevenly across the country, some California drivers saw gas prices as high as $9 a gallon.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
If the soil starts bone dry, water may run through unevenly, leaving parts of the root zone dry.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2026
Such an uneven structure could only survive if the star’s magnetic field were both extremely strong and unevenly distributed.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 5 Apr. 2026
Event-betting markets flourish in ambiguous or unevenly-enforced legal environments.
—Kelli María Korducki, thehustle.co, 3 Apr. 2026
That’s bad news for everybody, but the domestic consequences of the war are likely to ripple unevenly, and in the process undermine one of the country’s primary engines of economic growth.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
The global semiconductor supply chain is unevenly distributed, with key capabilities concentrated in East Asia, where different segments of production, from fabrication to assembly, are highly developed.
—Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
The fossils were unevenly distributed, clustered in certain areas, with some buried in clay deposits.
—Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unevenly
Adverb
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This means that changes in fertilizer prices affect different crop prices unequally, with corn being disproportionately impacted.—
E.J. Antoni,
Boston Herald,
6 Apr. 2026
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Russia’s mobilization is unequally distributed.—
Sophie Spiegelberger,
New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Each independent advocate works differently, doing anything from helping people figure out how to take the next steps after a diagnosis to battling with insurance companies to getting patients in quickly for a test or a second opinion.—
Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2026
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Researchers have found that our brains process reading a physical book differently than when using an e-reader, which strips away that physical connection.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Unevenly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unevenly. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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