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Recent Examples of unreceptive
Minority students tended to leave school for reasons including inadequate high school preparation, unreceptive and alien campus environments and inadequate career counseling.
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Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 29 Feb. 2024
This is not likely to be effective given that conspiratorial thinking tends to become so entrenched that the believer comes to be entirely unreceptive to reasons.
—Rafael Perez, Orange County Register, 12 Apr. 2024
This film is a prime example of how the sci-fi genre helps creators to pass along (often very preachy) messages to otherwise unreceptive audiences.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2023
Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met with Niger's junta members in the capital this week but called them unreceptive to her demands to restore Niger's democracy.
—Ellen Knickmeyer and Tracy Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2023
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Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 29 Feb. 2024
This is not likely to be effective given that conspiratorial thinking tends to become so entrenched that the believer comes to be entirely unreceptive to reasons.
—Rafael Perez, Orange County Register, 12 Apr. 2024
This film is a prime example of how the sci-fi genre helps creators to pass along (often very preachy) messages to otherwise unreceptive audiences.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2023
Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met with Niger's junta members in the capital this week but called them unreceptive to her demands to restore Niger's democracy.
—Ellen Knickmeyer and Tracy Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreceptive
Adjective
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These deep-state criminals leaked classified information for partisan political purposes to undermine President Trump's agenda.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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Matt Shupe is communications director for the California Republican Party, meaning his job is seeing that partisan hopes spring eternal.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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The inherent orthodoxy of his premise excluded all other alternatives to narrow-minded rationalism and its ethical constraints.—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Of the trio, Bernadette was written as the strictest rule-follower — possibly even the most narrow-minded.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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Additional allegations included the denial of religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates for military personnel, biased treatment of Christian Foreign Service Officers, and efforts to suppress Christian expression in federal schools and agencies.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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The government, Cramer asserted, is biased against Apple and Nvidia, the latter of which designs semiconductors that have been highly in demand across the world.—
Julie Coleman,
CNBC,
21 Apr. 2025
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America’s seeming inability to escape the pull of Vietnam’s symbolic weight shifts the focus away from the issues at hand by invoking the distant world of Vietnam-era America in which criticisms of misguided foreign military intervention or prejudiced domestic policies can be safely contained.—
Made by History,
Time,
30 Apr. 2025
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The prejudiced perp took off on foot in an unknown direction.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
26 Apr. 2025
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Many employers were in partial compliance with the PUMP Act, by having either a private lactation space or a written policy, but not both.—
Michelle Travis,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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This partial transcript has been edited for clarity and length.—
Walk On,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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And as the film builds toward the inevitable heartbreak and clash with intolerant family members, the emotion needed to carry such heavy subject matter simply isn’t there.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
30 Jan. 2025
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Some individuals—many more than have allergies to milk—are intolerant to it, meaning their bodies struggle to digest dairy products, usually due to milk sugar called lactose.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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There is perhaps no one with direct access to the president who has been as outwardly and vociferously racist and bigoted.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2025
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At its worst, her rhetoric is bigoted and myopic, perpetuating antiblack stereotypes in her psychosexual analysis of racial hierarchy in the United States.—
Audrey Wollen,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Unreceptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreceptive. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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