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
  • Trying to win 16 games with an offensive-tilt is misguided, mirroring how MLB teams reliant on home runs get knocked out by good pitching every October.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2026
  • This bill is another misguided attempt to hobble employers’ efforts to be more productive.
    Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Though the process of how it is utilized can be debated, having emergency stocks of a vital resource subject to supply crises can hardly be called irrational.
    Scott L. Montgomery, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
  • My greatest irrational fear was that the machine might squeeze far tighter than necessary and I’d just be stuck there in immense pain until someone unplugged the cord.
    Zachary Bernstein, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • What had once either gone unconsidered or been managed at the campaign level is now being discussed as a core element of corporate strategy.
    Jordan P. Kelley, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • And Wiles, a shrewd lobbyist based in Florida, seldom makes unconsidered moves.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 16 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • Bainbridge knew about secrets and unreasoning shame.
    Christopher Tayler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Winds high above Saturn were generating electrical currents, creating a misleading auroral signal that mimicked changes in rotation.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Parts of the ballot language backing a tax on second homes in San Diego are misleading and must be amended, a judge ruled Thursday.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • There have been all sorts of concerns for a while, including shenanigans around using metrics from SaaS to apply to AI-native companies (that logic is specious at best).
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • These novels offer a post-colonial perspective—an understanding that, though these Americans may have done something positive in China by building roads or hospitals, their very presence, and certainly their perspective on their purpose there, is specious.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Adapted by Nesbo from his fifth Harry Hole mystery (The Snowman was the seventh), Detective Hole is padded by several episodes, and the finale arrives at a conclusion that is somewhere between illogical and wholly ludicrous.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
  • As a player, Q was erratic, illogical, and self-destructive — at one point requesting to be voted out at Tribal Council.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • As in Williams’ case, attorneys argued that a sweep had violated the plaintiffs’ Fourth Amendment rights protecting them from unreasonable search and seizure, as well as their 14th Amendment right to due process.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Because that is ultimately what The Secret Garden is about—the stubborn, almost unreasonable insistence of living things to grow toward the light.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026

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“Unreasoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreasoned. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.

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