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Adjective
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Ultimately, during her first reporting trip, she was granted only a single and largely uninformative one-hour interview.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 Feb. 2014 -
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
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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
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Aside from being impractical, the new importation strategy would leave America’s drug supply vulnerable to dangerous counterfeit medicines from abroad.—
Sally C. Pipes,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 July 2025
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However, for many travelers who take only one or two flights a year, that's impractical advice.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
11 July 2025
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“Uninstructive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninstructive. Accessed 17 Jul. 2025.
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