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Recent Examples of unsound But don’t get too attached to any of these morally unsound characters, since all are mere bait for this killer. Randy Myers, Mercury News, 20 June 2025 The approach that the Great Barrington Declaration laid out was, at the time, widely denounced by public-health experts, including the World Health Organization and then–NIH director Francis Collins, as dangerous and scientifically unsound. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 9 June 2025 And now, the scientifically unsound political campaign against water fluoridation is another example of an anti-pediatric fringe initiative to dismantle a public health success. Scott A. Rivkees, Time, 6 May 2025 At the heart of this problem lies the influence of vocal anti-vaccine rhetoric that is not only scientifically unsound but also profoundly irresponsible. Amar Duggirala, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unsound
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsound
Adjective
  • But many Americans who don't meet the new criteria do still want to get vaccinated to avoid getting sick or spreading the virus to vulnerable family members.
    Rob Stein, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Harry, who served in the British Armed Forces for 10 years, launched The Invictus Games in London in 2014 to honor active duty and veteran service members who have been wounded, injured or sick on the job.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • We're protected from unreasonable searches and seizures.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This is a crude and unreasonable attempt to make the discussion into an all-or-nothing affair.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Malik Heath’s insane toe-tap grab on the sideline, which was reversed after video replay review, was a massive 37-yard swing for the Packers during the drive.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • None of their other work, arguably, has had the seismic impact or inspires the same insane quotability as This Is Spinal Tap.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • It must also be said that, for all the lamenting of the Netherlands’ failure to win, West Germany — and Muller — were robbed of a clear goal in the second half due to an erroneous offside flag.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • On Thursday, an erroneous report of a man with a gun sent two Boulder schools into lockdown.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This involves having a poorly or non-functioning colon and is not usually reversible.
    Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 17 Aug. 2025
  • The researchers and their partners are also working to track local residents’ health and to measure how well or poorly interventions like masks and household air filters protected them.
    Maggie Astor, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Losing Fed independence is like giving free rein to emotional, irrational decision making.
    Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Maura’s performance makes Maria Angeles so magnetic and eccentric — earthily practical on some matters, dizzily irrational on others, and sympathetically true to herself on all fronts — that all the film’s other players want for detail and texture by comparison.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Brown's attorneys had said Brown could at times appear psychotic.
    Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Psychologists and psychiatrists are scrambling to better understand how use of chatbots can fuel delusions and drive psychotic episodes.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Apple had to claw back key features, including its (very funny but very inaccurate) text message and news app summaries.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The agent’s outputs could be inaccurate, irrelevant or even risky, negatively impacting ROI.
    Manosiz Bhattacharyya, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Unsound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsound. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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