unready

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Recent Examples of unready During the pandemic, United pilots worked closely with the airline to develop a Covid policy that kept pilots on the payroll, trained and ready to return nearly as quickly as travel did, while other airlines were slowed by having pilots unready to fly. Ted Reed, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025 The Iranian government remained unprepared for the Syrian army’s swift collapse, as defensive lines crumbled and soldiers proved unready or unable to fight. Hamidreza Azizi, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024 But readiness is usually an advantage, especially when your opponent is adamantly unready. Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024 About a quarter are unready to express an opinion of either. Gary Langer, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unready
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unready
Adjective
  • Yet, many households are woefully unprepared to meet the challenges this entails.
    Glenn Llopis, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Advertisement Advertisement Yet as communities from the Eastern Seaboard to the Midwest are engulfed in record-breaking temperatures, the U.S. is now even more dangerously unprepared.
    Kathy Baughman McLeod, Time, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • Due to hiring freezes, workforce reductions and funding cuts, FEMA has entered the hurricane season understaffed and underprepared.
    Jade Walker, CNN Money, 11 June 2025
  • The underprepared resident quietly ushered into independent practice with a strong letter of recommendation?
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025

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“Unready.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unready. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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