unreflective

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Recent Examples of unreflective The frozen official arrangements for international order are increasingly unreflective of the global distribution of material power. Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2022 The chapter is, on the whole, as brusquely unreflective as its title suggests. Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 24 Nov. 2022 The point of the book isn’t to solve the case or bring Kenny to justice, but to systematically reveal the paralyzing sinkhole of injustice that dissolves all hope and all strategies of resistance into a flat, unreflective goo. Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023 Cage turns its unreflective dramatic form and unchallenging narrative conventions into a kind of living nightmare, which bypasses the movie’s mediocre ideas and trivial plot and raises it—if only a few fleeting moments at a time—into the realm of the extraordinary. Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021 The composition of state legislatures is unreflective of the overall population, according to research from New American Leaders, a group that works to involve immigrants and first-generation Americans in politics. Eleanor Lutz, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2022 The one problem the team saw was that the reflective layer didn't make solid contact with the unreflective one when it was unrolled, which limited the amount of heat that could transfer between the two. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022 Develop approaches for appropriate clinical use of AI in combination with human expertise, experience, and judgment, and discourage overreliance on, or unreflective trust of, algorithmic recommendations. John D. Halamka, STAT, 20 Mar. 2022 During a 2011 search, divers working for Deep Ocean Search encountered a small, unreflective object near the coordinates of the ship that had been left by German submarine records and the ship’s own crew. The Editors, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreflective
Adjective
  • That includes Andrew Yancy, an extremely tall and flippant former Miami detective who was reassigned to work for the sheriff’s department in the Keys until he got temporarily suspended from that job, too.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2024
  • On the Kyle Meredith With… podcast, Hale said that his character is supposed to represent the flippant, sexist culture of the 1970s.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Later in the evening, the two musicians posed for photos backstage, serving up some goofy poses and clearly enjoying themselves.
    Jack Irvin, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Eddie and Venom’s relationship is goofy bordering on insane, and the limitations do indeed start to show in The Last Dance.
    James Grebey, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Most of that lawsuit was thrown out after Wood petitioned for an anti-SLAPP exemption, a legal maneuver used to strike down frivolous and expensive lawsuits that can silence critics, and Manson was ordered to pay $327,000 in attorney fees.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Jen continues to remain consistent with her journey of positive rehabilitation, and will not entertain frivolous narratives from those seeking a rise from her or her family.
    Liza Esquibias, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The company enlisted Donald Duck’s scatterbrained cartoon uncle, Prof. Ludwig Von Drake, in a video on votedisney.com to make its case that Disney’s current board members are up to the job.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Hudson turns up her ditz-o-meter to 11, twirling and screaming her way through a performance that should remind Hollywood of her singular scatterbrained talents.
    Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
Adjective
  • But Russians are also considered by their leaders as an unthinking mass that must blindly follow their leader.
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2022
  • There’s the interest in Britney Spears and pop icons who had been assumed to be vacant, unthinking ingénues.
    Brandon Tensley, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • Cash is also seen as thoughtless and low-effort, says Julian Givi, associate professor of marketing at West Virginia University.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Oz’s decision to close that sewer door could be chalked down to a terrible mistake, the thoughtless actions of a child.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024

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“Unreflective.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreflective. Accessed 7 Dec. 2024.

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