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Recent Examples of unrepresentative
Ferocious opposition Supporters of the president might pooh-pooh these results as unrepresentative.
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Jamelle Bouie, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
Across his decades-long career, filmmaker Malik Hassan Sayeed has sat for only a handful of feature interviews, which is unrepresentative of both his unique ability to communicate and his openness to sharing stories from his life.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2025
Undergraduate institutions have long promised America’s young people opportunities to learn in cloistered conditions that are deliberately curated, anachronistic, and unrepresentative of work and life outside the quad.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025
On Monday, Sweeney and American Eagle were dinged for releasing an ad that everybody agreed was obviously offensive; now, those outraged were a tiny, unrepresentative minority hardly worth paying attention to.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 July 2025
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Jamelle Bouie, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
Across his decades-long career, filmmaker Malik Hassan Sayeed has sat for only a handful of feature interviews, which is unrepresentative of both his unique ability to communicate and his openness to sharing stories from his life.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2025
Undergraduate institutions have long promised America’s young people opportunities to learn in cloistered conditions that are deliberately curated, anachronistic, and unrepresentative of work and life outside the quad.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025
On Monday, Sweeney and American Eagle were dinged for releasing an ad that everybody agreed was obviously offensive; now, those outraged were a tiny, unrepresentative minority hardly worth paying attention to.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrepresentative
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His work is marked by unusual, even bizarre, material choices that encrust spatial compositions reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s innovative open space plans.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Jan. 2026
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Some unnamed Chicago bartender in the early 1880s had the improbable idea of taking a Whiskey Sour and adding a little red wine to the top, inventing in a bizarre flash of insightone of the great warm weather whiskey drinks of our time.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
10 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The sounds had become a strange new normal for the diverse Central neighborhood.—
Nicole Acevedo,
NBC news,
10 Jan. 2026
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And there was a strange preoccupation with running out of time, even though the show ended a good 15 minutes early as if the performers didn’t understand their own timeline.—
Matthew J. Palm,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The quaint little town of Lancaster, New Hampshire, is living proof that sometimes good things really do come in small packages.—
Megan Margulies,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Dec. 2025
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The Holiday Two women from opposite sides of the Atlantic—one from Los Angeles, the other from a quaint English village—swap homes for the holidays to escape heartbreak and gain a fresh perspective on life.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Parents,
22 Dec. 2025
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The performance was actually anomalous for Rodgers, who has as many fourth-quarter comebacks as Andy Dalton—and vanishingly few against winning teams.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2026
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Most of those teams relied on dynasties or historically anomalous runs to fortify their patience.—
Jerry Brewer,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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The new guidance reflects the latest research showing that HPV tests, compared to Pap smears, can increase the detection of abnormal cells in the cervix that may lead to cancer.—
Aria Bendix,
NBC news,
5 Jan. 2026
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Kickers often have an abnormal route to high-level football.—
Ren Clayton,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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What’s remarkable is the Leafs have done it without Tanev, their best penalty killer, for most of the season and without another top penalty killer, Brandon Carlo, for the better part of the last two months.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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The whimsical term has also been the title of countless poems, songs and books about remarkable coincidences or eureka moments.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
7 Jan. 2026
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At Bar Margot, the lobby’s quirky cocktail lounge, expect creative concoctions like the Southern Paradise with gin, chinola, banana-oat-vanilla syrup and a meringue topper.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 2026
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The South Carolina native, a Midwest outlier in his love for the Panthers, says his personality is reflected in the quirky song.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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The moment in 1997 when the esoteric holiday left the closed confines of the television writer’s memories of an atypical adolescence and slipped into the world via Hollywood producers took place as he was cornered in a booth with his colleagues prodding him to spill the beans.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Dec. 2025
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These include individuals with anorexia nervosa, atypical anorexia nervosa or avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID).—
Dr. Ellen S. Rome,
Boston Herald,
21 Dec. 2025
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“Unrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrepresentative. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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