unsystematic

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Recent Examples of unsystematic Nevertheless, higher but more stable prices without the market-distorting effects of unsystematic subsidization are a net gain for China and foreign investors alike. Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025 Attacks are unsystematic and on residential areas. Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022 In investing, there are two primary types of broad risks: systematic and unsystematic risk. Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021 Diversification does not usually affect the systematic risk that applies to the financial markets; instead, diversification is primarily used to eliminate or reduce unsystematic risk. Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021 Impressed by this fact, Koolhaas and his partners use the exhibition to traverse the (mostly) uninhabited earth with unsystematic abandon. Nikil Saval, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020 If RaDVaC intends to produce generalizable knowledge about this vaccine, unsystematic self-experimentation is unlikely to produce useful information. Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2020 This was a radical idea in China, where scholars had always researched the past through manuscripts in the safety of their libraries, or at most, made unsystematic studies of the imperial palaces in Beijing. Stefen Chow, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017 This was a radical idea in China, where scholars had always researched the past through manuscripts in the safety of their libraries, or at most, made unsystematic studies of the imperial palaces in Beijing. Stefen Chow, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsystematic
Adjective
  • These were often portraits of people at work—jockeys, preachers, movie stars—that showcase the indiscriminate pleasure Crews took in shoptalk.
    Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • According to this lie, if anyone protests Israel's indiscriminate response to Hamas fighters within the general population, that must be because of the protester's antisemitic bigotries.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • Marine biologists had thought that the pelvic bones were purposeless in the marine environment, and would eventually disappear given another million or so years of evolution.
    Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2014
  • But here’s a question: How much longer can the country afford to lure so many of its promising talents into a life of purposeless paper-pushing and legalized economic vandalism that antitrust has become?
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 10 May 2022
Adjective
  • Both shows just burn through villains in the most haphazard and jarring way, never really allowing for any of them to build up into something truly threatening, let alone interesting enough to carry the mantle of Big Bad.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
  • That fact was evident not only in the casualties and hostage-taking during the massacre, but in the grinding, brutal, and haphazard war in Gaza that has followed.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 13 June 2025

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“Unsystematic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsystematic. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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