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Recent Examples of unreconstructed
And not just those unreconstructed Confederates who write books quoting each other in their echo chambers suggesting the War wasn't about slavery but about economics and states' rights.
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arkansasonline.com, 12 Feb. 2025
Thousands of anticommunist agitators, professional patriots, and unreconstructed confederates gathered to protest and disrupt.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
Walton remained an unreconstructed hippie the rest of his life.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2024
The most direct criticism of Peltz came from Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a management professor at Yale who is an unreconstructed fan of Iger’s.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
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arkansasonline.com, 12 Feb. 2025
Thousands of anticommunist agitators, professional patriots, and unreconstructed confederates gathered to protest and disrupt.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
Walton remained an unreconstructed hippie the rest of his life.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2024
The most direct criticism of Peltz came from Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a management professor at Yale who is an unreconstructed fan of Iger’s.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreconstructed
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But availability remains a persistent question for Porzingis, who has been limited to 17 games this season, due in part to the chronic autonomic nervous system illness POTS, or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
5 Feb. 2026
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The freezing conditions can be dangerous for the homeless population, older adults, young children and those with chronic health conditions.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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But the Coop had one thing that failed cooperatives didn’t: Joe Holtz, a gregarious 22-year-old from Sheepshead Bay with a mind for numbers and an incorrigible idealism.—
The Editors,
Curbed,
15 Dec. 2025
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Mary Roy, too, married to flee violence—her father, a civil servant under the British, beat his wife and whipped his children—only to find that her husband was an incorrigible drunk.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The temporomandibular joint — located adjacent to the masseter muscle — connects the lower jaw to the skull, and structural issues or habitual grinding and clenching of the teeth can lead to stiffness in the jaw, headaches and more.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
31 Jan. 2026
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Raymond Ratzel, 43, is charged with nine counts of burglary of a building or dwelling, all as a habitual criminality repeater.—
Adrienne Davis,
jsonline.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Chris Matthews, the inveterate Washington insider and analyst, joins us to talk about the state of politics and the press.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
5 Dec. 2025
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The La Mancha manor home’s namesake, Josie, (real name is José Fernández-Pacheco) is an inveterate aesthete who is best known to Spanish television audiences as a presenter extraordinaire.—
Maite Sebastiá,
Architectural Digest,
4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Since mid-2025, federal immigration agents, including ICE officers, have shot at people at least 16 times during enforcement operations, resulting in multiple injuries and four confirmed deaths.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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So far, among the confirmed returning cast members of the Emmy-winning series, in addition to Sudeikis, are Brett Goldstein (Roy Kent), Hannah Waddingham (Rebecca Welton), Juno Temple (Keeley Jones), Jeremy Swift (Leslie Higgins) and Brendan Hunt (Coach Beard).—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
PEOPLE,
17 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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This shift won’t only make unregenerate oil producers richer.—
Walter Russell Mead,
WSJ,
18 Oct. 2021
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One stalks about the room like a criminal imprisoned, unregenerate, incorrigible.—
Patricia Highsmith,
The New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2021
Adjective
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Cardiac inversus is a congenital condition in which a person's heart and other internal organs are on the other side of the body, creating a mirror image of where most people's organs are.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Feb. 2026
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According to the Academy of American Pediatrics (AAP), babies born with congenital syphilis will receive antibiotics right away, usually in the hospital after they are born.—
Wendy Wisner,
Parents,
4 Feb. 2026
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Havenstein started 148 regular-season games and 13 playoff games, including the Rams’ victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium to cap the 2021 season.—
Gary Klein,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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She was given a series of instructions and shown videos that explained the purpose and cadence of her regular check-ins.—
Mica Rosenberg,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Unreconstructed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreconstructed. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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