unreceptive

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Recent Examples of unreceptive 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 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 See All Example Sentences for unreceptive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreceptive
Adjective
  • President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a military strike on Iran’s nuclear sites without fully consulting the U.S. Congress layered a partisan approach onto a risky action, particularly because the White House briefed top Republican leaders beforehand without doing the same for Democrats.
    Lisa Mascaro, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2025
  • Confidence surveys also increasingly reflected partisan differences more than the actual economy.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • That is something that has always struck me as strange and narrow-minded.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 June 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • There can be data bias, which is when AI systems are trained on biased data that can contain an overrepresentation of some groups (white people for example) and an underrepresented of other groups (non-white people for example).
    Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • And Read’s many supporters – both outside the Dedham, Massachusetts, courthouse and online – championed her case, echoing her allegations of police corruption as her defense inside the courtroom painted the investigation as flawed and biased.
    Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Survey after survey shows that those who engage in remembrance are less likely to hold prejudiced views toward Jews and other groups, Mr. Walter says.
    Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2025
  • BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is back in business in Texas after the state removed it from a blacklist of financial firms that Republican officials deemed to be prejudiced against the oil and gas industry.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • While a partial Trump win on nationwide injunctions, challenges can continue.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 27 June 2025
  • This is why President Trump’s reaction to the commitment by NATO members at their recent summit to more than double their defense-spending target is welcome, even if a partial opt-out for Spain is not.
    The Editors, National Review, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Many of the asylum-seekers are Christians who fled Iran and its intolerant views toward non-Muslim religions.
    Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 26 June 2025
  • Plants are intolerant of dry summer soil, making summer a stressful time for planting.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • The blatantly bigoted decision will someday be overturned, but not without inflicting enormous pain in the interim.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
  • Bea and Patience carry the show, while the rest of the ensemble is just sort of there, not really adding much, aside from Bea’s obnoxious and bigoted subordinate (played by Nathan Welsh) who is dismissive and sneering about Patience, both to her face and behind her back.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025

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“Unreceptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreceptive. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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