unrepresentative

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Recent Examples of unrepresentative When left- and right-wingers agree that the United States is unrepresentative, that represents a mandate for disruption—from Trump in 2024 to Mamdani in 2025. Will Johnson, Time, 1 Jan. 2026 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. Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 22 Dec. 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 See All Example Sentences for unrepresentative
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrepresentative
Adjective
  • La beauté bizarre of the Lobster Boy is decadent.
    Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 2 May 2026
  • Fabianne Therese plays a young woman on a hike in the woods with her boyfriend (Seann William Scott) who runs afoul of a bizarre, imposing figure (pro wrestler Max the Impaler) with a porcelain doll mask intent on raising her as a child.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 May 2026
Adjective
  • The truck had been at the head of a column of seven rescue vehicles, all of which had received clearance from the tower to cross Runway 4 at Taxiway D and head toward a United Airlines flight that was evacuating due to a strange odor onboard.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • On World Rhythms, Lockwood trusts the listener to hear the arc of its noises, to trace their emergence and disappearance, their strange, seductive confluence.
    Joshua Minsoo Kim, Pitchfork, 28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina Across a drawbridge from the mainland, just a stone's throw from the college town of Wilmington, is a quaint Atlantic waterfront.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2026
  • In just a few days, the running world comes to Hopkinton, and the quaint suburban town is prepared for its arrival.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Yet none have reported persistent, anomalous emissions from nearby Sun-like stars.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 May 2026
  • Suspicious and anomalous transactions and inventories the state detects will prompt investigations, the bulletin stressed.
    Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Stray dogs aren’t an abnormal occurrence but Sierra had something most stray dogs didn’t.
    Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 May 2026
  • Goenka said one signature of early cancer that the AI model was able to detect is abnormal cells in the pancreas that shelter and protect cancer from the body’s immune defenses.
    Aria Bendix, NBC news, 2 May 2026
Adjective
  • The distance the field has traveled since −and has yet to go − represents a remarkable and very American medical journey, characterized by big ideas, big risks, perserverence and issues of fairness and eye-popping prices.
    Karen Weintraub, USA Today, 3 May 2026
  • Krakauer survived a deadly ordeal on Everest—a high price to pay for a remarkable book.
    Dan Zak, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026
Adjective
  • The quirky Atlanta station’s local broadcasts of old movies and sports games had become national broadcasts.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
  • Kids and kids at heart can while hours away at quirky stops like the Museum of Root Beer, Pirate’s Cove Mini Golf, and Wisconsin Deer Park.
    Taryn Shorr-Mckee, Midwest Living, 4 May 2026
Adjective
  • To add insult to injury, my degree combination was atypical, and AI isn’t known for creative thinking.
    Michelle Dally, Denver Post, 2 May 2026
  • Tangir said the GLP-1s also are curbing a pre-cancer condition in the uterine lining called complex atypical hyperplasia.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026

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“Unrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrepresentative. Accessed 7 May. 2026.

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