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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.
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Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Attacks are unsystematic and on residential areas.
—Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
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
Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Attacks are unsystematic and on residential areas.
—Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsystematic
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Which is tear apart a lot of innocent lives around this country, most notably in Democratic sanctuary cities such as Chicago and nearby — men, women and children whom Trump’s overly aggressive, indiscriminate deportation force regards as not having the right skin color or national origins.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Jan. 2026
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But the positions that were eliminated suggested a blunt, even indiscriminate, approach.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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
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In How To Do Nothing, Jenny Odell talks about how the pursuit of productivity — driven by capitalism, competition, and consumption — has redirected our attention outward, leaving us feeling empty and purposeless.—
refinery29.com,
refinery29.com,
7 Sep. 2021
Adjective
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The rooms Due to the building’s haphazard original layout, no two of the 14 bedrooms are the same.—
Chris Schalkx,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Jan. 2026
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The state auditor found that money was poorly tracked thanks to a haphazard, spend-first, ask-questions-later approach from the governor’s office.—
Brian Jones,
Oc Register,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Missing a Focal Point A living room without a focal point can feel directionless and empty.—
Anyssa Roberts,
The Spruce,
12 Jan. 2026
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In the dark romantic comedy-drama, True Blood alum Skarsgård, 49, plays tough biker Ray, who enters into a dominant-submissive relationship with Colin (Melling), a shy and directionless man who sings in a barbershop quartet.—
Eric Andersson,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Unsystematic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsystematic. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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