unpopularity

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Recent Examples of unpopularity With his unpopularity, even allies are starting to distance themselves. Charlotte Reed, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025 Journalism that rushes toward the most interesting and important stories, regardless of their unpopularity. Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025 Journalism that rushes toward the most interesVng and important stories, regardless of their unpopularity. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025 The Republican House is at record levels of unpopularity. Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 1 Oct. 2025 Although Petro’s unpopularity has increased in recent years, his progressive platform is seen favorably by around a third of the population. Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2025 In 1872 Congress allowed the Civil War income tax to expire, impressed by its widespread unpopularity. Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 That dynamic has been helped by the unpopularity of the center-right Conservatives, who left office after 14 years last July. Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025 The current challenge is how to balance the immense global unpopularity of the Israeli government’s war in Gaza – including among Gulf Arab citizens – with common strategic interests the Gulf states hold with Israel. David Mednicoff, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpopularity
Noun
  • Reactions to the extraordinary news spread quickly, ranging from surprise to anger at the league itself, according to five people who work inside or closely with the NBA, all of whom were granted anonymity because they were not permitted to speak publicly about the matter.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The specific number is about $912 million, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, who were granted anonymity because the details are private.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Bandmates Callum, Melusine and Al are mostly toiling in obscurity until a violent act at one of their gigs goes viral.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • As Hollywood has grown more outspoken in recent months about the situation in the Middle East, the challenges of convincing its distributors — the lifelines that can take movies from obscurity to national recognition — remain.
    Rebecca Keegan, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • At the same time, invisibility has come as a relief, insofar as my vanity always kept company with self-consciousness and self-flagellation.
    Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Both women acknowledged that invisibility has long been the default narrative for women after midlife—and both are actively rewriting it.
    Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After a near-fatal experience, Kaif began seeing both stories and silences differently.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In Colombia, an 18-year-old visits her estranged mother — a former guerrilla turned bride-to-be — hoping to find a revolutionary heroine but instead encounters silence, regret and love unspoken.
    Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Her difficulty lay in her distance from the random violence of insignificance.
    Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • His groundbreaking work reveals how a hidden epidemic of insignificance is quietly eroding engagement, trust, and performance in organizations, and what leaders can do to reverse it.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The most enduring symbol of that series: Manu Ginobili at age 36, weaving his way through traffic in Game 5, giving a stiff-arm to 2013 tormentor Ray Allen before exploding for an out-of-nowhere dunk on Chris Bosh.
    Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 18 May 2020
  • While the series has officially concluded, this comeback special fast forwards to an entirely new, out-of-nowhere plot point and is therefore easy to watch for novices.
    Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 13 May 2020

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“Unpopularity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpopularity. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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