1
as in unnecessary
not needed by the circumstances or to accomplish an end
the committee concluded that any further revisions to the regulations were currently unwarranted
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as in unreasonable
having no basis in reason or fact
don't leap to unwarranted conclusions
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Recent Examples of unwarranted
The governor there has called the deployment of military troops to Portland unwarranted, and the Oregon attorney general has filed a lawsuit trying to block the deployment.
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Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
Umpires take a lot of unwarranted criticism across Major League Baseball, but this is one instance where Scott Barry deserves to take some heat for this decision.
—Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Though his paranoia is not unwarranted.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Top Democrats and former President Obama have all said the decision to remove Kimmel from the airwaves was unfair and unwarranted.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 19 Sep. 2025
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Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
Umpires take a lot of unwarranted criticism across Major League Baseball, but this is one instance where Scott Barry deserves to take some heat for this decision.
—Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Though his paranoia is not unwarranted.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Top Democrats and former President Obama have all said the decision to remove Kimmel from the airwaves was unfair and unwarranted.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwarranted
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Cut off the unnecessary branches — and clean up the tree.—
Zack Rosenblatt,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Once inside cells, the nanoparticles break down, releasing lithium in effective doses without exposing the rest of the body to unnecessary risk.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Oct. 2025
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Many of our technologies are built on the not-unreasonable assumption that openness is good, and that more common knowledge is better.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2025
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Each side of the issue argues that the other is unreasonable and operating in bad faith.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Unwarranted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwarranted. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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