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Recent Examples of unreflective
These people are concerned that the superficial—attention to looks—will obscure and distract us from what is truly significant, turning us into unserious and unreflective people incapable of making the best of what’s left.
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Judith Viorst, Allure, 1 Apr. 2025
The frozen official arrangements for international order are increasingly unreflective of the global distribution of material power.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2022
The chapter is, on the whole, as brusquely unreflective as its title suggests.
—Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 24 Nov. 2022
The point of the book isn’t to solve the case or bring Kenny to justice, but to systematically reveal the paralyzing sinkhole of injustice that dissolves all hope and all strategies of resistance into a flat, unreflective goo.
—Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
Cage turns its unreflective dramatic form and unchallenging narrative conventions into a kind of living nightmare, which bypasses the movie’s mediocre ideas and trivial plot and raises it—if only a few fleeting moments at a time—into the realm of the extraordinary.
—Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021
The composition of state legislatures is unreflective of the overall population, according to research from New American Leaders, a group that works to involve immigrants and first-generation Americans in politics.
—Eleanor Lutz, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2022
The one problem the team saw was that the reflective layer didn't make solid contact with the unreflective one when it was unrolled, which limited the amount of heat that could transfer between the two.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
Develop approaches for appropriate clinical use of AI in combination with human expertise, experience, and judgment, and discourage overreliance on, or unreflective trust of, algorithmic recommendations.
—John D. Halamka, STAT, 20 Mar. 2022
Judith Viorst, Allure, 1 Apr. 2025
The frozen official arrangements for international order are increasingly unreflective of the global distribution of material power.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2022
The chapter is, on the whole, as brusquely unreflective as its title suggests.
—Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 24 Nov. 2022
The point of the book isn’t to solve the case or bring Kenny to justice, but to systematically reveal the paralyzing sinkhole of injustice that dissolves all hope and all strategies of resistance into a flat, unreflective goo.
—Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
Cage turns its unreflective dramatic form and unchallenging narrative conventions into a kind of living nightmare, which bypasses the movie’s mediocre ideas and trivial plot and raises it—if only a few fleeting moments at a time—into the realm of the extraordinary.
—Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021
The composition of state legislatures is unreflective of the overall population, according to research from New American Leaders, a group that works to involve immigrants and first-generation Americans in politics.
—Eleanor Lutz, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2022
The one problem the team saw was that the reflective layer didn't make solid contact with the unreflective one when it was unrolled, which limited the amount of heat that could transfer between the two.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
Develop approaches for appropriate clinical use of AI in combination with human expertise, experience, and judgment, and discourage overreliance on, or unreflective trust of, algorithmic recommendations.
—John D. Halamka, STAT, 20 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreflective
Adjective
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The art of bluffing in itself, which is what the movie is all about, isn’t something to be flippant about.—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Feb. 2025
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Claiming ignorance or hyper-fixating on a flippant detail from the past gets us nowhere.—
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Pearl Breed: Pit terrier mix Age: 2 years old Pearl is a cuddly, goofy, playful pup looking for her forever home.—
Trish Stinger,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2025
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Betty’s world is introduced with real decor, like a big grey bed and an amusingly goofy invention of Grampy’s, but the handmade quality falls by the wayside as most of the rest of David Rockwell’s sets are conjured via that old menace, the big flat LED screen.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Small or midsize businesses with a website could be targeted by frivolous lawsuits.—
Daryl Lim,
The Conversation,
9 Apr. 2025
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The big picture: North Carolina is one of a handful of states without an anti-SLAPP law, according to the Institute for Free Speech, which protects people from frivolous lawsuits intended to keep them quiet.—
Alexandria Sands,
Axios,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The novel begins on a Monday afternoon like any other at its three adolescent central characters’ loving but scatterbrained aunt Xía’s house in Miami.—
Juan Vidal,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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The company enlisted Donald Duck’s scatterbrained cartoon uncle, Prof. Ludwig Von Drake, in a video on votedisney.com to make its case that Disney’s current board members are up to the job.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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But Russians are also considered by their leaders as an unthinking mass that must blindly follow their leader.—
Andrei Kolesnikov,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Apr. 2022
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There’s the interest in Britney Spears and pop icons who had been assumed to be vacant, unthinking ingénues.—
Brandon Tensley,
CNN,
23 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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The Twist in The Woman in the Yard Is a New Low for Trauma Horror Horror that’s really about trauma is now the norm, but there’s something particularly thoughtless about this film’s treatment of mental health.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
28 Mar. 2025
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Nor, Miss Manners uncharacteristically assures you, is making thoughtless strangers feel better.—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Unreflective.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreflective. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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