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Recent Examples of unreceptive
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.
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Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025
If the seller is unreceptive, speak with a local attorney about how to enforce the contract.
—Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2024
And now, Democrats warned, targeting nominees' résumés risks reinforcing the image that the party is unreceptive to the beliefs of everyday Americans about what ails the country.
—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
Minority students tended to leave school for reasons including inadequate high school preparation, unreceptive and alien campus environments and inadequate career counseling.
—Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 29 Feb. 2024
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Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025
If the seller is unreceptive, speak with a local attorney about how to enforce the contract.
—Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2024
And now, Democrats warned, targeting nominees' résumés risks reinforcing the image that the party is unreceptive to the beliefs of everyday Americans about what ails the country.
—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
Minority students tended to leave school for reasons including inadequate high school preparation, unreceptive and alien campus environments and inadequate career counseling.
—Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 29 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreceptive
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The attempt would be remarkable and serve as an overt example of partisan gerrymandering in Missouri — not based on population changes but to strengthen the GOP’s slim majority in Congress.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
7 Aug. 2025
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That warning echoed arguments made by Democratic election attorney Marc Elias, who fed the growing partisan escalation last week without offering any practical remedies to disrupt Texas Republican plans in court other than playing the same political game.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Aug. 2025
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Its opposite—illiberal—means stingy, narrow-minded, intolerant, provincial, unenlightened, and using government to insure the flourishing of only the few.—
Harper’s Magazine,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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That is something that has always struck me as strange and narrow-minded.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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Balance Speed Of Implementation With Appropriate Safeguards The proliferation of biased AI tools is increasing the normalization of prejudice.—
Dr. Michelle Penelope King,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Do not be fooled by prosecutor Fellowes’s biased presentation!—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
11 Aug. 2025
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Like almost every city in the South, Orlando was still struggling with its prejudiced past — damage that is still evident today in the city’s most impoverished neighborhoods, and in communities like Parramore where historic identity is threatened by dividing roads and gentrification.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 July 2025
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The co-defendants argued that keeping the trial in Nelson County would impede their rights to a fair and impartial trial because the publicity and news coverage the case has received could lead to a prejudiced jury pool.—
Killian Baarlaer,
The Courier-Journal,
2 July 2025
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This initiates a continuous, adaptive cycle: retrieving data, reasoning over it, taking actions, storing partial outcomes and adjusting future steps.—
Naren Narendran,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Peteski also objected to PBR’s partial joinder in support of the TBN and TCT motion.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
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Shasta daisies are intolerant of wet soil, which encourages crown and root rots that shorten the life of plants.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
28 July 2025
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This silly holiday comedy features Sandler as both intolerant brother and odd-job twin sister (Jill) while everyone else looks on in horror.—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
26 July 2025
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In 2016, Trump, while running for President, was also suing a restaurateur for cutting ties over his bigoted comments about Mexican immigrants.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
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Anti-Islamophobia advocates called the bigoted attacks typical of what American Muslims in public life have come to expect.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
26 June 2025
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“Unreceptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreceptive. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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