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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrepresentative
Adjective
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That is pretty bizarre, given how fantastic both atmospheres have been throughout the playoffs.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
17 May 2026
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Rather than representing a bizarre evolutionary innovation unique to salamanders, regeneration may actually reflect an ancient trait that many vertebrates once possessed more broadly.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
Adjective
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They were considered to have strange physical afflictions or weak mental attitudes, and some people with endocrine diseases were even dismissed as ‘freaks’ and heckled in circuses or locked away in institutions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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So yes, there was a kind of resistance, because the film and the script could seem strange, and some people wanted to normalize it, to fit it into a genre.—
Roberto Prieto,
Variety,
19 May 2026
Adjective
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The collateral damage is that college sports have become a multibillion-dollar playground pickup game, where loyalty and stability are quaint concepts and the most important race, for many players and coaches, isn’t to win championships but to cash in as fast as possible.—
Chris Smith,
Vanity Fair,
11 May 2026
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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
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Not to make too much of what is a relatively small (though not insignificant) role, but Jude’s anomalous casting as Malia’s Marcus Aurelius-quoting, crane operator dad does carry with it a current of eccentric vivacity that the rest of the film sorely lacks.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
18 May 2026
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Turner is a somewhat anomalous protagonist in the pantheon of iconic 1970s thrillers.—
Paul Fitzgerald,
Rolling Stone,
14 May 2026
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The need-to-know this morning Relay Therapeutics reported promising Phase 2 data of its drug zovegalisib in a group of rare diseases that cause abnormal vasculature development, sending company shares up 9% in premarket trading.—
Elaine Chen,
STAT,
19 May 2026
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T cells normally recognize other cells that have been infected by a virus or bacterium, or are otherwise abnormal, and either destroy them or recruit other parts of the immune system to do so.—
Amber Dance,
ArsTechnica,
17 May 2026
Adjective
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Instead, text produced by large language models, however remarkable, sophisticated, and even occasionally wondrous, is derivative, average, predictable.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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What was remarkable about Newcastle was how one tug on the thread caused Nuno’s players to unravel.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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Road trippers can make pitstops at historic sites and quirky landmarks, like the 66-foot-tall soda bottle at Pops 66 Soda Ranch in Oklahoma.—
Victoria E. Freile,
USA Today,
20 May 2026
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Arsham himself fashioned the quirky, matching-green instruments.—
Howard Walker,
Robb Report,
20 May 2026
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But despite Kennedy’s atypical leadership, several top officials at HHS have commanded respect from a broad swath of the establishment, including FDA Commissioner Makary.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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The situation is atypical, said Jeffrey Bellin, a law professor at Vanderbilt University and an expert in the rules of evidence.—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
13 May 2026
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“Unrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrepresentative. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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