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Recent Examples of unreceptive
To their credit, Lawyers Defending American Democracy and the other plaintiffs did just that, only to find the appropriate authority unreceptive.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2025
Is the primary electorate simply unreceptive to centrist points of view?
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
Others continue burning cash in the pursuit of profitability but are finding the market unreceptive.
—William Roberson, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Hippler appeared unreceptive to their arguments that the IGG techniques violated Kohberger's constitutional rights and questioned whether the defendant even had standing to challenge the investigatory tactic.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2025
Is the primary electorate simply unreceptive to centrist points of view?
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
Others continue burning cash in the pursuit of profitability but are finding the market unreceptive.
—William Roberson, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Hippler appeared unreceptive to their arguments that the IGG techniques violated Kohberger's constitutional rights and questioned whether the defendant even had standing to challenge the investigatory tactic.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreceptive
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This was a bipartisan effort, led by state attorneys general from across the country and across the political spectrum, because this isn’t a partisan issue.—
Letitia James,
Rolling Stone,
21 Apr. 2026
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Critics say the event has a highly partisan list of participants and is part of a larger project to connect America's upcoming 250th birthday with a Christian nationalist vision that portrays the nation's founding as essentially Christian, something many historians dispute.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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However, curiosity can interrupt that narrow-minded thinking, according to Maya Nehru, MA, LMFT, a psychotherapist offering services in anxiety and trauma in San Diego and Washington.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
25 Mar. 2026
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This is a valid concern, which is why the solution must be comprehensive, not narrow-minded.—
Jerry Presley,
Denver Post,
18 Mar. 2026
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Conservative media personality Megyn Kelly and podcaster Katie Miller, who is married to Trump immigration policy czar Stephen Miller, are among those on the right to label Phillip as biased.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2026
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The White House has portrayed Boasberg as a biased judge who overstepped his authority.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
15 Apr. 2026
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But the rich sometimes actually can face a prejudiced jury.—
John Seiler,
Oc Register,
9 Apr. 2026
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For their part, Berman and Bryant have a reason to be prejudiced against trees, but Berman doesn’t hold a grudge after a tree crushed one of their cars on Bryant’s birthday nine years ago.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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The approach also proved resilient, working even with partial or noisy sensor data and in cluttered environments, marking a step forward in adaptable, real-world robotic manipulation.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Apr. 2026
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The share of Americans who disapprove of the job that Congress is doing stands at an all-time high as the partial government shutdown drags on, according to new polling from Gallup.—
Morgan Chalfant,
semafor.com,
22 Apr. 2026
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The Gaza protests had been galvanizing for Republicans, who, even before October 7th, had viewed universities as captured by radical thinking on race and politics, rife with grade inflation, and intolerant of conservatives.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Plants are intolerant of dry summer soil, making summer a stressful time for planting.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
13 Apr. 2026
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This is a guy who could write these incredibly bigoted figures, and then also write this really searing indictment of American materialism.—
Elisabeth Garber-Paul,
Rolling Stone,
19 Apr. 2026
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On Sunday Hungary’s far-right leader Viktor Orban fell in an election after 16 years of some of the most bigoted and, by many accounts, corrupt rule in post-Soviet Eastern Europe.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Unreceptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreceptive. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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