unhistorical

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Recent Examples of unhistorical Saying that ending our 43-year involvement [with] the EU is somehow going to fundamentally change this deep relationship between our two countries is completely unhistorical. Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2016 Well, certainly the most unhistorical. Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022 Interpreting the Qur’an exclusively by reference to its text without invoking outside or later sources is injudicious and unhistorical. . Christopher Carroll, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unhistorical
Adjective
  • The Scheme To carry out the fraud scheme, the defendants and their co-conspirators created fictitious employers and lists of alleged employees—those lists were generated using personally identifiable information (PII) gleaned from thousands of identity theft victims.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • The girl is in the Brazilian capital, but the headset transports her to a fictitious Indigenous village in the Atlantic rainforest, where capybaras and jaguars dart across the landscape.
    Constance Malleret, Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Ready to swap the real-world drama for a fictional web of secrets and lies?
    Andrea Bartz, People.com, 18 May 2025
  • It’s set in the (fictional) city of Eddington, NM, where the local sheriff, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joe Cross, tools around town responding to minor crises like noise complaints.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • Biden's attorney jumped in to clarify that Hur's team had asked a speculative question that did not reflect Biden's initial answer.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 18 May 2025
  • Any financial instruments mentioned herein are speculative in nature and may involve risk to principal and interest.
    Katie Stockton, CNBC, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Based on the second-longest investigation in Swedish history, this is a fictionalized account of the 2004 double murder of a small boy and a 50-year-old woman in the small town of Linkoping.
    Andrea Duncan-Mao, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
  • This is intertwined with fictionalized scenes of Du Bois’s final years working on the project in the newly independent African nation.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Health has been viewed primarily as a function of hypothetical future costs in wealth planning.
    Joseph Coughlin, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • The debate over Rose’s place in Cooperstown is now more than a hypothetical.
    C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • For stock market investors, the equity risk premium is the theoretical excess return of stocks over risk-free assets to account for market risk.
    , CNBC, 19 May 2025
  • Think of the 60 plus percentage rates advertised in the press as the ceiling or the theoretical maximum reimbursement rates.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • Inspired by the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas, The Carpenter’s Son tells the dark story of a family hiding out in Roman Egypt.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 9 May 2025
  • Every team needs someone who’s fueled by a moment being doubted — significant or trivial, apocryphal or true — and who harkens back to that moment after every championship, even as his beard grays and time blurs.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Erik Wemple Blog asked the Times for another example of an editor’s note apologizing for nonfactual issues.
    Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Yankovic, who wrote the film with its director Eric Appel, noted that the intention is to be satirical and nonfactual.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2022

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“Unhistorical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhistorical. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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