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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.
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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
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
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During this same time period, Macy’s accounting statements recognized around $4.36 billion in delivery expenses—suggesting that somewhere between 3% and 3.5% of those expenses were fictitious.Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2024
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Michael Gandolfini’s star rose sharply with his appearance in 2021 The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark as a young Tony Soprano, the fictitious crime boss immortalized by his late father James Gandolfini.Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2024
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Estranged from his family and battling health issues, Husk, a fictional character, becomes consumed with stopping Matthews and his destructive grand plan.Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 7 Dec. 2024
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Making The Most Of Facial Recognition Software A Loss Prevention Research Council study found that security professionals who did not use face-matching technology were wrong 77% of the time when identifying an individual from a fictional lineup of just 20 people.Dara Riordan, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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TikTok has consistently denied any improper data sharing or content manipulation, arguing that the law's premise is based on speculative, future risks rather than any substantiated wrongdoing.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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But none of us are going to notice because the hour spent on his speculative, facial tics.Zack Sharf, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
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Dahmer, similarly, was accused of exploiting the murders in a fictionalized way that some believed even glorified him as a killer in some ways.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
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My second pitch is a little more left-of-center and would involve Maher again playing a version of herself, albeit in a more fictionalized, rom-com narrative.Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2024
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Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania garnered 38 percent and 37 percent of the hypothetical vote, respectively, to Trump’s 48 percent and 44 percent.Tara Suter, The Hill, 26 Nov. 2024
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For example, say your hypothetical mortgage payment is $2,500 while your rent is $2,000, Williams said.Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024
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But unlike the 2023 interview, the topics Welker brought up and Trump's response to them are no longer theoretical campaign promises.Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Such a sweeping act of clemency covering even theoretical crimes over the course of a decade went beyond the scope of any since at least the Watergate era, when President Gerald R. Ford pardoned his disgraced predecessor, Richard M. Nixon, for any crimes even though he had not been charged.Peter Baker, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Whether or not that potentially apocryphal story holds up to scrutiny given the 300 SEL 6.3’s official top speed of 137 miles per hour, McQueen then immediately turned around and bought the car that crossed the auction block this past August.Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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The story is most likely apocryphal but so delightful that it has been repeated for decades.Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
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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
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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 11 Dec. 2024.
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