unreasoned

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Recent Examples of unreasoned In each case, the actual right to your body is deferred to some third party, either the paternalists, the hypothetical children, or unreasoned authority. Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreasoned
Adjective
  • Instead of expanding nursing slots, the state board has limited the number of nursing slots for private colleges out of a misguided sense of fairness.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025
  • After all, even repeating the consensus of the time is far from a surefire way of looking clever in 25 years, because various elements of the sport where there was a broad agreement about the direction of travel have proved misguided.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Poetry brings hope, not an irrational optimism or wishful thinking, but a positive orientation to the future, of what a better, healthier future would look like.
    K.J.S. “Sunny” Anand, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Marks believes that investor optimism doesn’t automatically signal irrational exuberance.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • That’s a potential unconsidered downside of being a Pot 1 team as co-hosts in the World Cup draw: Canada might not get to test itself against sides that want to control possession.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The activist investor’s latest move should prompt consideration of other untapped opportunities in other unconsidered sectors.
    Hudson Lockett, Reuters, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Let sound political prescience but take the place of an unreasoning prejudice, and this will be done.
    Frederick Douglass, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2017
Adjective
  • Nelson questioned how the device could justify its IP rating and called the hinge design misleading.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The lawmakers say this claim is misleading, adding that the office should be able to respond to communications by utilizing non-furloughed employees or prioritizing carryover funding at its disposal.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Paramount settled a lawsuit by Trump against CBS News and 60 Minutes generally considered specious and winnable for $16 million as the company sought government approval for its sale to Skydance, which came shortly after.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Inside, the layout is streamlined and intuitive, with a door-in-door compartment for quick grabs, a specious full-width drawer, and a three-tier organization system in the freezer.
    Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The film had transformed from the messy, illogical version I’d first seen into a hilarious, shrewd, contemplative work of art.
    Susan Orlean, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The composition has many hallmarks of surrealism, including dream logic – the strange, flowing and often illogical progression of images reflecting the unpredictable nature of dreams – metamorphosis and psychic ambiguity.
    Sally Jane Brown, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Many of our technologies are built on the not-unreasonable assumption that openness is good, and that more common knowledge is better.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Each side of the issue argues that the other is unreasonable and operating in bad faith.
    Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Unreasoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreasoned. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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