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as in unfavorable
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as in irreparable
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Skeptics might observe that a spinoff of a spinoff sounds a little unpromising.
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Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
This doesn’t mean that all medical projects aimed at treating disease and disability are unpromising.
—WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
In her semifinals, a slow reaction time had Richardson off to a unpromising start.
—Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
Even the most initially unpromising or urban spaces can potentially, with the right approach and design, become valuable and productive garden spaces.
—Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 21 July 2023
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Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
This doesn’t mean that all medical projects aimed at treating disease and disability are unpromising.
—WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
In her semifinals, a slow reaction time had Richardson off to a unpromising start.
—Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
Even the most initially unpromising or urban spaces can potentially, with the right approach and design, become valuable and productive garden spaces.
—Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 21 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpromising
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Notably, leaving more than 20 percent was just as unfavorable as not leaving a tip at all, both with just 2 percent.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Forty-nine percent of likely voters have a somewhat or strongly unfavorable view of Gascón, compared to just 15% for Hochman, who has also served as a former assistant U.S. attorney general and past president of the L.A. City Ethics Commission.James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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This is the formal, technical, and maybe even industry term for exactly what viewers will suspect; the ornate sitting room of the Staten Island mansion where a group of vampires gather to lounge, fight, and occasionally hypnotize a private school principal to the point of irreparable brain damage.Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2024
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In the ruling, Judges Eric Clay and Karen Moore argued that the groups risk irreparable harm if pipeline construction begins before the judges decide their case.Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
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The ongoing violence in Sinaloa has created an inauspicious start to the beginning of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s term in office.Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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But Carter's exit from the White House after what many critics decried as a largely ineffectual single term marked the beginning of what became the most consequential post-presidency in U.S. history – made even more remarkable by its inauspicious start.Mark Updegrove, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2024
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Patients with primary resistance may not respond to inhibitor therapy if their T cells are already forced into irreversible exhaustion.William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Finally, blockchain smart contracts—essentially, self-executing, irreversible exchanges of cryptocurrency—automatically process the trades and distribute money to the winners.Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
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Companies using third-party consumer reports about employees are required to follow Fair Credit Reporting Act rules by obtaining consent and being upfront information being used to make adverse decisions, allowing workers to dispute incorrect data, the CFPB said.Kate Gibson, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
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Consumers can also submit a voluntarily report that's used in the event of a complaint or adverse event (illness or serious allergic reaction) related to a food product.DeVonne Goode, Parents, 23 Oct. 2024
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Did Middle Tennessee State expose Miami’s uncorrectable problems?Keven Lerner, Sun Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2022
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Yes, there are some uncorrectable changes, but those changes aren’t currently causing any problems for the James Webb team.Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 July 2022
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“Unpromising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpromising. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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