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Recent Examples of unpopular
Sébastien Lecornu resigned Monday after announcing a cabinet that largely retained the same ministers as under his unpopular predecessor, triggering a backlash.
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Ana Nicolaci Da Costa, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
In a separate two-day national poll conducted last week by CBS News/YouGov, views on National Guard deployments were similarly unpopular yet widely divisive among the two parties.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
Avoid issues where a widespread consensus cannot be achieved, such as changing assessment allocations or unpopular use restrictions.
—Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2025
Obamacare survived a 16-day partial shutdown in 2013 aimed at defunding the new, and then still quite unpopular, healthcare law.
—W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2025
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Ana Nicolaci Da Costa, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
In a separate two-day national poll conducted last week by CBS News/YouGov, views on National Guard deployments were similarly unpopular yet widely divisive among the two parties.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
Avoid issues where a widespread consensus cannot be achieved, such as changing assessment allocations or unpopular use restrictions.
—Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2025
Obamacare survived a 16-day partial shutdown in 2013 aimed at defunding the new, and then still quite unpopular, healthcare law.
—W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpopular
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Look for unusual activity such as unrecognized logins, changes to passwords or new connected devices.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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In many cases, fans were able to see that the tickets were surreptitiously forwarded to unrecognized accounts, presumably so they could be sold on third-party sites.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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In a day of turmoil for the nation off southern Africa’s coast, the 51-year-old leader, whose whereabouts are unknown, earlier sought to dissolve the lower house by decree.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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Per The New York Post, the spacious 21,000-square-foot Olympia Fields estate was sold to an unknown buyer, but the history behind the home may have had much to do with its purchase.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Punter Jamie Gillan was an unsung hero for the second straight week.—
Dan Duggan,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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On the individual level, data centers are everyone’s unsung heroes.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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These weren’t no-name startups.—
Kim Komando The Kim Komando Show,
FOXNews.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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Just stay away from the no-name brands that have popular listings on Amazon despite lacking discrete graphics cards—like this.—
Luke Larsen,
Wired News,
28 Sep. 2025
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That may seem like a small and unimportant distinction to the non-Macca-heads among us.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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Those tests that pick up most cancers tend to pick up other unimportant things as well — and those screening tests that are limited to discovering cancer often miss many people with the disease.—
Cory Franklin,
Twin Cities,
14 Sep. 2025
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And yet, as the 2008 financial crisis showed, trouble on Main Street can start in obscure corners of Wall Street.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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Sasagawa searched YouTube for old and obscure emo bands, and came across a 2012 upload of Everyone Asked About You’s vinyl album.—
David Hill,
Rolling Stone,
15 Oct. 2025
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Based on a podcast (the creator of which is a character in the series), the Hulu series has an excellent cast, led by Jason Clarke, unrecognizable as Alex Murdaugh, and Patricia Arquette as his wife Maggie.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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Sweeney is almost unrecognizable as Christy Martin, the professional boxer who left small-town West Virginia to take big swings in the ring.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
10 Oct. 2025
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To know all the actors, famous to unfamous.—
Daniel Vaillancourt,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2022
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But during this break in the action, a camera scanning courtside spotted Kobe, pleasantly inhabited by an almost unfamous happiness, teaching his daughter about the game.—
Matt Sullivan,
Vulture,
29 June 2021
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“Unpopular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpopular. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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