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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
Adjective
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Why would someone dig such a bizarre underground hideout?—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Feb. 2026
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Well, what happened next was pretty bizarre.—
Tom Margenau,
Dallas Morning News,
1 Feb. 2026
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The choice of Olivier Boscagli at left-back at Fulham, for example, a contributing factor in Chukwueze’s equaliser, was strange.—
Andy Naylor,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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In a dispatch from Minneapolis, chaun webster considers the strange familiarity of ICE and the limits of our language.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Car 3483 was an ideal vantage point from which to contemplate the snowy countryside and the quaint French villages sliding past.—
Shamilee Vellu,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Jan. 2026
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Water taxis whisk travelers from the quaint little harbor to isolated beaches and tavernas.—
Rick Steves,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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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The device, which produces radio waves, is being studied and is a subject of debate as to whether it is connected to anomalous health incidents (AHIs), also known as the Havana Syndrome.—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
13 Jan. 2026
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Roasty and savory like garlic butter before dessert, where fragrances can become an abnormal testament to a brief, unyielding safety.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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And to feel momentary dismay and stress and sadness or anxiety in response to it strikes me as a normal human response to an abnormal event.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
28 Jan. 2026
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To locals, gators are no more remarkable than ducks, though occasionally more disruptive.—
Phil Thomas,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Feb. 2026
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Indeed, Harvard’s turnaround has been so remarkable that at our recent Yale Higher Education Leadership Summit, Harvard President Alan Garber received the Yale Legend in Leadership Award.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Southwest closed a quirky era in flying.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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Crafty’s Kitchen will take over the shuttered Knott’s Beary Factory cafeteria with chef/owner Crafty Coyote developing a menu of quirky culinary concoctions, according to the backstory.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
27 Jan. 2026
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In the past, Starbucks has distinguished itself from other chain stores by offering benefits atypical for hourly workers, including health benefits for part-time employees and free college tuition via a partnership with Arizona State University.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
30 Jan. 2026
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That is atypical for this time of year, though the Royal Rumble is one of the rare events that largely promotes itself.—
Rob Wolkenbrod,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Unrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrepresentative. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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