uninfluenced

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Recent Examples of uninfluenced But levying strict discipline has so far been football’s most visible attempt to ensure the competition on the field is fair and uninfluenced, a key to maintaining consumer confidence. Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 1 July 2023 Frosh said his reason for not confirming the names associated with cases under review is that the process must remain uninfluenced by grieving families or police officers. Jim Axelrod, Andy Bast, Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2022 Authentic just means uninfluenced, right? Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 19 May 2022 Some cities see homicide rates decline until the lockdowns, and then rise; some see declines during the lockdowns and spikes when the protests start; some experience homicide rates that are higher than past years over the whole year, seemingly uninfluenced by lockdowns or protests. John Pfaff, The New Republic, 21 June 2021 His travels, in many ways, unearthed a living archive because some of the remote ranchos and missions seemed caught in a time warp, occupied by succeeding generations of families living the same lifestyle and seemingly uninfluenced by the outside world. Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2020 What other body would be likely to feel confidence enough in its own situation, to preserve, unawed and uninfluenced, the necessary impartiality between an individual accused, and the representatives of the people, his accusers? Adam White, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninfluenced
Adjective
  • Arts journalism encompasses unbiased reporting of arts news and events but also can include arts criticism, which claims a history reaching back to the writings of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The company frames it as a service, given the information overload most people find themselves in, and the unbiased goal of prediction markets.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • But by state law, the board is not an impartial player.
    Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The attorneys argued that allowing such visual displays of the victims in the courtroom could potentially challenge the court’s ability to choose an impartial jury for the trial.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 22 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Only 43 percent of respondents think the charges against Trump will be adjudicated fairly by a neutral judge and an unprejudiced jury.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Bheem’s courtship of the governor’s unprejudiced niece (a charming Oliva Morris), which provides some comic relief, not that anything in the film is really meant to be taken seriously.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Nov. 2022
Adjective
  • The Blue Jackets had just gone through the motions in a 2-1 loss to the Washington Capitals, committing 23 giveaways and totaling just three hits, a lifeless, disinterested — and sadly, fitting — end to the season.
    Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The standoff springs from a dysfunctional relationship between Republican legislative leaders and a disinterested governor.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Alexander Hamilton was religiously indifferent for his entire political career and appeared to hold views consistent with Deism during that period.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • There is a tense contradiction between claims that LGBTQ+ rights are a western import and historical records that show more progressive, or even indifferent, societal norms in India.
    Supriya Ganesh, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Characters are skewed not to create an evenhanded debate but to sensationalize one, with a young fact-minded novice looking to follow the rules is blindsided by a supercilious writer not willing to bend his vision to the needs of editors, fact checkers or even printers or distributors.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The biography is presented as a clear-eyed and evenhanded examination of Reid’s complex legacy that neither whitewashes his methods nor diminishes his accomplishments.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Taken together, Beef seems to say all of these are representations of a culture so toxically individualistic and ambitious that its members can’t even fathom solidarity as an option to push back against a depraved ruling class.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • But the social psychologists who catapulted to prominence in the early two-thousands were less interested in the richer concept of eudaemonia and more interested in a thinner, hollower, and vastly more individualistic enterprise of happiness, of simply feeling good.
    Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Investors had cheered the talks and the prospect of change at a fiercely independent company that had relied on decades-old relationships.
    Edwin Chan, Bloomberg, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Trevor Bauer, the former Cy Young Award winner and MLB All-Star, tossed a no-hitter for the independent Long Island Ducks in a 13-0 win over the Lancaster Stormers on Sunday afternoon at Penn Medicine Park in Pennsylvania.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026

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“Uninfluenced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninfluenced. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.

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