as in illogical
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Recent Examples of unscientific
Trump appears to have gotten his statistic from an unscientific poll on the Telegram messaging service by one of Zelenskyy’s political rivals.
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Alexander Smith, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2025
This is an egregiously unscientific effort that can threaten the lives and basic rights of millions.
—Ginger Cassady, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
But in an unscientific poll, Elon Musk asked people on X what the U.S. should do with the clocks if the time change was canceled.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
The declaration was denounced by many public health experts as unscientific and irresponsible.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
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Alexander Smith, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2025
This is an egregiously unscientific effort that can threaten the lives and basic rights of millions.
—Ginger Cassady, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
But in an unscientific poll, Elon Musk asked people on X what the U.S. should do with the clocks if the time change was canceled.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
The declaration was denounced by many public health experts as unscientific and irresponsible.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscientific
Adjective
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When the world is falling apart, all the illogical perceptions fall away, leaving only what matters standing, and that which matters is no longer veiled by those perceptions.—
Cathrine Todd,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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That wasn’t entirely illogical.—
Michael Cox,
The Athletic,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This whole exercise of proving the absence of antisemitism as a prerequisite to criticizing Israeli government policy is absurd.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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Still, the sexist double standards around pockets have continued to be present in absurd ways.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2025
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Added to the chaos is the underlying rudimentary calculation of tariff levels that have produced wildly uneven and irrational effects on trading partners with no readily discernible policy value.—
Jerrold Lundquist,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The characters are believably upset and irrational for much of the play.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
2 Apr. 2025
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So although these actions may seem fatuous on the surface, the next four years will be about looking for the undercurrents.—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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Schools must accept that mission statements without curriculum alignment are fatuous; the way schools define themselves is through the experience that flows from their curriculum.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes,
1 Oct. 2024
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Like a Jenga tower with half the pieces removed, Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach’s wobbly script grows more preposterous by the minute.—
Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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The unease surrounding the Stars is multi tiered, justified, preposterous, and unavoidable.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Apr. 2025
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Friendships built on insecurity, where men constantly have to prove their manhood, are a breeding ground for toxic attitudes and stupid decision-making.—
Terry Ward,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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That was the result of a stupid Obama-era rule that claimed a benefit to climate change (the biggest scam ever perpetrated on humanity) by restricting water flow through shower heads and faucets.—
Paul Bedard,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The words were harsh but the logic was not unreasonable.—
George Caulkin,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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This would not be an unreasonable proposition, considering the U.S. already pledged a security guarantee to Ukraine upon its return of all nuclear warheads to Russia by 1996, based on the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances.—
Seung-Whan Choi,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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Witnesses on the flight told authorities Augustin was stomping, yelling, shaking and being incoherent, the document continued.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA TODAY,
13 Mar. 2025
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The end result is an incoherent jumble that clearly got lost in the edit, or was it rescued by it?—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Unscientific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscientific. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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