unrepresentative

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Recent Examples of unrepresentative On university campuses and in living rooms, conversations are less about battles and borders and more about inflation, unemployment, a political system that feels unrepresentative and a future clouded by uncertainty. Salman Masood, New York Times, 2 May 2025 This is especially true in cases of algorithmic bias, where faulty or unrepresentative datasets yield discriminatory hiring, lending, or healthcare practices. Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025 Over all, a representative sample of how unrepresentative our view of red really is. Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025 Yet the West either ignores them or dismisses them as unrepresentative. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015 See All Example Sentences for unrepresentative
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrepresentative
Adjective
  • But upon Bennet’s arrival, things take a turn for the bizarre, when the wealthy tycoon builds himself a prison cell in the basement, in an apparent act of meditative penance that forces Blakey into an inversion of traditional power dynamics.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Tasked with bringing into reality those that are a little further down on the bizarre end of the spectrum, the show’s prosthetics and VFX teams had their work cut out for them.
    Lisa de los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Because something very strange happens here.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Probably not, given the company’s strange hesitance to part ways with its current leadership.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Prince and Princess of Wales, along with their three kids—Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis—are moving later this year from the quaint four-bedroom Adelaide Cottage in the Windsor Home Park to the stately Forest Lodge within Windsor Great Park, BBC first reported.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The Virginia Civil War Museum and the Shenandoah Caverns are other landmarks nearby in the quiet, quaint area east of the West Virginia line.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • What tipped biologists off to its morphological differences was the Barbary lion's deep golden coat and an anomalous, dark, thick mane.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This group, which included Professor Berlinguette, was tasked with rigorously re-evaluating the controversial 1989 experiment that claimed to produce anomalous heat from the fusion of deuterium ions in palladium.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • According to the Cleveland Clinic, Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that can trigger unexpected seizures, caused by temporary abnormal electrical conditions in the brain.
    Meredith Kile, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Not an abnormal deviation from traditional Israeli-Palestinian dynamics but their culmination.
    Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Clay Henry beat Steele in a landslide, with newspapers across the country covering the quirky election.
    Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Finally, the quirky and cutting indie is in theaters this Friday, and ready for its biggest audience yet.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Her latest project, monitoring 50 camera traps in the understudied Atascosa highlands region in southern Arizona resulted in a remarkable discovery.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Her remarkable comeback from severe kidney issues to earn a second Olympic berth and three more medals at the Paris 2024 Games has cemented her legacy.
    Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That blend of sadness and comedy, and even atypical family dynamics, run throughout a lot of your work.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Somewhat atypical for a streamer, Hulu has been increasingly leaning into the pilot development model, ordering both comedy and drama pilots.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Unrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrepresentative. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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