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Recent Examples of unrepresentative
So while not nearly as disastrous, there’s a precedent for a small sample size, like such, to be unrepresentative of a team’s final product.
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Noah White, Miami Herald, 18 Nov. 2025
Ferocious opposition Supporters of the president might pooh-pooh these results as unrepresentative.
—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
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Noah White, Miami Herald, 18 Nov. 2025
Ferocious opposition Supporters of the president might pooh-pooh these results as unrepresentative.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrepresentative
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Having stabilized his ship in orbit around the black hole, Dr Hans Reinhardt (a bizarre, OTT performance from Maximilian Schell) now plans to fly into it, assisted by an unquestioning crew of automatons with a very dark origin story.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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That's bizarre to me, especially those two.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Feb. 2026
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In a strange twist, the Max app was developed by VKontakte (VK), which Durov co-founded before selling his shares and leaving Russia in 2014, after Durov said the Kremlin had asked the site to hand over Ukrainian users’ data.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Paul, the polarizing boxer, has been no stranger to showing emotion.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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According to its website, The Franklinville Inn captures the quaint charm of days when Benjamin Franklin traveled through town to Cape May.—
Courtney Cherry,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
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In this cozy historical fiction tale, the old days unlock untold truths for Ninny and Evelyn—about their own lives and the history of their quaint Southern town.—
Amanda Favazza,
Southern Living,
6 Feb. 2026
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The difference between an input and its reconstruction therefore signals how anomalous that input is.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
3 Feb. 2026
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At extremely low temperatures, the team detected a distinct topological signal in the form of a spontaneous, or anomalous, Hall effect.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Jan. 2026
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Or hold a burning incense stick around the windows and doors, and watch for any abnormal smoke movement.—
Michelle Ullman,
The Spruce,
10 Feb. 2026
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The training also makes clear that the definition of ectopic pregnancies — which are always life-threatening — includes any that implant in an abnormal location outside of the uterine cavity.—
Cassandra Jaramillo,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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Given how unbeatable the Avs looked in the first half, that’s pretty remarkable.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Terrance Gore, a baseball player whose remarkable speed earned him spots on three championship teams, including the 2020 Dodgers, died Friday, the Kansas City Royals announced on social media.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2026
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After the success of Rob Reiner’s 1984 satirical classic This Is Spinal Tap, which counts Guest as a star and co-writer, the latter returned to the mockumentary genre with Guffman, focusing on the quirky residents of a small town producing a stage musical to celebrate their history.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Feb. 2026
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The city pairs its cartoon legacy with Sonoma County wine, local breweries, diverse dining, and quirky boutique hotels.—
Cu Fleshman,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Feb. 2026
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In studies, the marigolds were transformed to a concentrated state atypical of most gardens.—
Lee Wallender,
The Spruce,
6 Feb. 2026
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Thomas is atypical in another regard as the floor leader, given his naturally quiet, self-effacing manner.—
Patrick Z. McGavin,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Unrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrepresentative. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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