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Recent Examples of uninformative
Spend is grouped into broad, uninformative categories with little visibility for business stakeholders.
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Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
But jet engines do not operate continuously, making this figure uninformative, perhaps even misleading.
Airplanes, including their jet engines, go through rigorous regular maintenance designed to keep them at peak reliability on every flight.
—Sheldon H. Jacobson, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
The results suggest journalists were following an uninformative template for covering social protest.
—Douglas M. McLeod, Scientific American, 10 June 2024
Google's uninformative responses to Charge 5 issues thus far won't help worries that Fitbit is dying under its new owner and may eventually be totally absorbed by the Google brand.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2024
What is the most uninformative statement that people are inclined to make?
—Agnes Callard, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
These documents are majestically uninformative.
—Michael Hiltzikbusiness Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2022
Ultimately, during her first reporting trip, she was granted only a single and largely uninformative one-hour interview.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2014
Satellite data was too coarse and aerial photos uninformative.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2012
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
But jet engines do not operate continuously, making this figure uninformative, perhaps even misleading.
Airplanes, including their jet engines, go through rigorous regular maintenance designed to keep them at peak reliability on every flight.
—Sheldon H. Jacobson, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
The results suggest journalists were following an uninformative template for covering social protest.
—Douglas M. McLeod, Scientific American, 10 June 2024
Google's uninformative responses to Charge 5 issues thus far won't help worries that Fitbit is dying under its new owner and may eventually be totally absorbed by the Google brand.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2024
What is the most uninformative statement that people are inclined to make?
—Agnes Callard, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
These documents are majestically uninformative.
—Michael Hiltzikbusiness Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2022
Ultimately, during her first reporting trip, she was granted only a single and largely uninformative one-hour interview.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2014
Satellite data was too coarse and aerial photos uninformative.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninformative
Adjective
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Democrats and Republicans snarled at one another, and at the witnesses, including John Dean, the Watergate figure, in a predictably sour and unenlightening spectacle.—
Jeffrey Toobin,
The New Yorker,
14 June 2019
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On one level, the explanation for brain avalanches is fairly simple and very unenlightening.—
Chris Lee,
Ars Technica,
16 Jan. 2018
Adjective
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These scenes are heavy and unilluminating.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
13 Apr. 2023
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The project draws strength, however, from the breadth of its interviews, including several Tyson opponents, before culminating with a fairly unilluminating chat with Tyson himself -- a relatively short coda that would have been stronger had it been spread throughout the presentation.—
Brian Lowry,
CNN,
25 May 2021
Adjective
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Jars of thick honey can feel messy or impractical for travel.—
Footwear News,
Footwear News,
12 Sep. 2025
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As hotels compete for increasingly discerning customers, designs perceived as impractical or uncomfortable can quickly backfire in the age of viral social media.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Digital fingerprinting collates an array of data from your phone — your IP address, device model and OS, time zone, setup and anything else if can get — to create a unique identifier in aggregate, even if each individual data snippet us useless on its own.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Never mind that large language models have so far proven useless at 95% of the companies that have made their workforces try to use them, researchers from MIT recently found.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Uninformative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninformative. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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