as in illogical
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Recent Examples of unscientific
The report’s future is no longer clear and some authors have expressed concern that it will be whittled down, unscientific or inadequate in expressing the risks of climate change.
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Evan Bush, NBC news, 2 May 2025
Modern thinkers stopped using these concepts altogether except in quotation marks, with a wink, a smirk, and a glance backward toward the unscientific past.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
From our informal and unscientific testing, Claude's search results appeared fairly accurate and detailed at a glance, but that is no guarantee of overall accuracy.
—Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
Double-zero at midnight is my personal roulette ritual, if anybody’s daft enough to follow my thoroughly unscientific methodology.
—David Weiss, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Evan Bush, NBC news, 2 May 2025
Modern thinkers stopped using these concepts altogether except in quotation marks, with a wink, a smirk, and a glance backward toward the unscientific past.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
From our informal and unscientific testing, Claude's search results appeared fairly accurate and detailed at a glance, but that is no guarantee of overall accuracy.
—Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
Double-zero at midnight is my personal roulette ritual, if anybody’s daft enough to follow my thoroughly unscientific methodology.
—David Weiss, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscientific
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Which was probably to be expected, given that making a new entry in this franchise doesn’t require jumping through too many illogical hoops or reinventing an outdated conceit.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
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His insight and unconventional approach to understanding human behavior lead him and the team on a series of intense, unexpected journeys to solve illogical puzzles and perplexing mysteries.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
9 May 2025
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There’s the undercurrent of politics stirring animus between the neighbors, with Canadians angered by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and his absurd aside saying perhaps Canada should be the 51st U.S. state.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2025
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The concept itself is absurd, given the modest park features.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
4 June 2025
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To many watching, Elon Musk’s decision to publicly insult President Trump seemed self-destructive, if not outright irrational.—
Joel Shulman,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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And then the irrational with the Tom Thibodeau move.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
5 June 2025
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So although these actions may seem fatuous on the surface, the next four years will be about looking for the undercurrents.—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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Schools must accept that mission statements without curriculum alignment are fatuous; the way schools define themselves is through the experience that flows from their curriculum.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes,
1 Oct. 2024
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This was a preposterous undertaking, like trying to rank the various pixels of a magic eye poster.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
6 June 2025
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Not only that, but 2024 was a preposterous statistical season for the Broncos’ 2021 first-round pick.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
5 June 2025
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Camp, stupid, joyful—to both own and access—Labubu has taken over.—
Lara Johnson-Wheeler,
Vogue,
31 May 2025
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This is just stupid how successful this is, but that’s really underselling it.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
31 May 2025
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The vast majority of post commenters assured the OP that her feelings are completely valid and that her mother is being unreasonable.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
7 June 2025
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But leading the team to the Finals is not an unreasonable request.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
6 June 2025
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Without a vigorous system of checks and balances, one man’s crank ideas—like starting an incoherent trade war that upends the global economy—don’t get filtered out.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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The result is an entirely incoherent crime thriller that features gangsters prattling on about the self and the ego and the soul and then occasionally wandering into an entirely different scene where other gangsters are prattling on about the same thing.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
27 May 2025
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“Unscientific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscientific. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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