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Recent Examples of unfairly
The union would need to believe that the league has applied it unfairly somehow with Sorsby.
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Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
23 June 2026
While many Labour lawmakers have rallied behind Burnham, some have said that Starmer had been treated unfairly.
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Jill Lawless,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2026
Eric Zitzewitz, another co-author of the 2008 paper and a professor at Dartmouth, suggested that while gambling-like behavior may be happening on prediction markets, the platforms may be getting unfairly maligned.
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Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
21 June 2026
Some said the team was unfairly burdened, while others who followed the team to Tijuana were thrilled to get closer access to the players.
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ABC News,
21 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for unfairly
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
23 June 2026
While many Labour lawmakers have rallied behind Burnham, some have said that Starmer had been treated unfairly.
—
Jill Lawless,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2026
Eric Zitzewitz, another co-author of the 2008 paper and a professor at Dartmouth, suggested that while gambling-like behavior may be happening on prediction markets, the platforms may be getting unfairly maligned.
—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
21 June 2026
Some said the team was unfairly burdened, while others who followed the team to Tijuana were thrilled to get closer access to the players.
—
ABC News,
21 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfairly
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But the global fame that Back to Black brought the London songstress only seemed to exacerbate her issues with addiction, and broadcast them to the world via a cruelly unsympathetic tabloid media ecosystem.
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Colombia peppered him with shots from all parts of the attacking third, as seen below, and had three goals disallowed before Daniel Munoz’s deflected strike — cruelly — finally beat Mpasi on 76 minutes.
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Her fury at Helios employees being treated so shabbily is matched only by her disbelief at Ger and his crew’s recklessness in allowing the consoles monitoring and controlling all of Happy Valley’s life-support systems and communications with the Titan mission unstaffed.
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And then there is County Road 450A near Umatill, which was rightfully stripped of McCall’s name in 2007 after area residents protested the honor toward one of the most viciously racist sheriffs in Florida history.
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The experience of unveiling and being viciously denounced by all sides was a brutal lesson at twenty-seven.
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Victim Nyron Shaw’s father said the driver who mowed his son down last year in Ocean Hill a day before Independence Day should face the maximum penalty for allegedly driving twice the speed limit and heartlessly taking off, leaving his son to die.
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In the process, Joel heartlessly killed some innocent people, including medical professionals.
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Ritter has disciplined Menapace after the lawmaker acted rudely or abusively to a committee clerk.
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In another famous tale, Hoja arrives at a feast wearing old and ragged clothes and is treated rudely.
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“Unfairly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfairly. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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