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Recent Examples of unrepresentative
Business within the neighboring countries and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region is also at stake, with regional leaders observing that an unrepresentative election process would detract from economic confidence in Myanmar and affect cross-border commercial ties.
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Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 22 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
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Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 22 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrepresentative
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The goggles, the GPS address and the laptop — all of it was strong evidence supporting the bizarre story Denise and Aaron had been telling all along.—
Lauren Clark,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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His YouTube page, once an online venue for his songs, was more recently dedicated to paranoid rants about his family members, some centering on his relationship with his grandfather, and others where Valdez displayed bizarre behavior like imitating Nazi soldiers.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
29 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The strange circumstances of his last weeks have the quality of a nightmare from which the Samsas awake.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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But his arrest and conviction in 2024 had been preceded a year earlier by a strange story that appeared in the press and then disappeared almost as quickly.—
K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Know what wakes me up more than a few mornings a month in Avondale, a quaint old neighborhood in Jacksonville?—
Chris Hildreth,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 Mar. 2026
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Spend the day lounging on the wide, spacious beaches, fishing in clear Gulf waters, or staying satiated at quaint small businesses like Skinny’s Place, North Shore Cafe, or The Doctor’s Office speakeasy.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
27 Feb. 2026
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The string theorists John Schwarz of Caltech and Michael Green of Queen Mary University of London calculated that in string theory, all the terms that threaten to be anomalous cancel out.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
23 Mar. 2026
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The anomalous floral prints of the spring 1999 show.—
Rosie Jarman,
Vogue,
16 Mar. 2026
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These plants contain cardiac glycosides, which can cause unpleasant symptoms for dogs and cats alike, such as drooling, diarrhea, abdominal pain, abnormal heart rhythm, and even some neurologic signs.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
24 Mar. 2026
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Experts said unprecedented and deadly weather extremes that sometimes strike at abnormal times and in unusual places are putting more people in danger.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Mar. 2026
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In three seasons with the Red Storm, the 73-year-old Pitino has led a remarkable resurgence for the New York City program, coaching the Johnnies to consecutive Big East regular-season and tournament championships.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Mar. 2026
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The region is at the end of a remarkable heat wave that lasted about two weeks, breaking records from Borrego Springs to Oceanside.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Now, more than half a year later, Larson sat in the modest theater of a quirky museum, Winsted favorite son Ralph Nader’s American Museum of Tort Law, as Bronin delivered a public version of the private message.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
23 Mar. 2026
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Most descriptions conclude that Obama used this quirky exchange to overrule his panicky advisors and run full steam ahead on health reform.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
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This atypical prison is designed to house atypical prisoners.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
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Testimony by Termini and Miles is intended to directly rebut DraftKings’ assertions and to help convince Judge Pratt that DraftKings’ use of NCAA trademarks is atypical, unauthorized and warranting of a TRO.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Unrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrepresentative. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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