How to Use uncontroversial in a Sentence

uncontroversial

adjective
  • Drag of this kind was uncontroversial and all around me back then.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 27 June 2023
  • Not that long ago, this would have been seen as uncontroversial.
    Michael R. Bloomberg, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2019
  • It’s a shortcut, a way to fast-track something that should be uncontroversial.
    Editorial Dallas Morning News, Star Tribune, 29 July 2020
  • Most of the law in question, passed on August 2nd, is uncontroversial.
    The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • There was never a time when the Nobel Peace Prize was uncontroversial.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Voting by mail has been an option offered in Ohio for more than a decade, and has been uncontroversial in recent years.
    Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2020
  • In short, the idea that a commission would be useful should be uncontroversial.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 20 May 2021
  • No surprise, maybe, given the uncontroversial theme: The US needs to prepare workers for the future.
    Brian Barrett, Wired, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Start with uncontroversial topics—even small talk about work or the weather.
    Alesandra Dubin, Glamour, 30 June 2022
  • The simple fact is that the Queen is too good at being royal, bland, uncontroversial and dully inscrutable.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Plenty of the changes in the strategy are uncontroversial.
    The Economist, 14 June 2019
  • This much is uncontroversial, even though it may not be thought relevant—or polite, perhaps—to talk about it.
    Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 21 Oct. 2020
  • But the biggest surprise of all turned out to be how uncontroversial the nominations were, as many of the results lined up with our predictions from two weeks ago.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The Chinese government is in the process of pushing tech firms out of the news business, even in seemingly uncontroversial areas as sports.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Oct. 2021
  • On Ninth Street one of the places poised for development is a parking lot, which ought to be entirely uncontroversial.
    Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Kruse: Again the ERA starts out seeming uncontroversial.
    Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2019
  • Much of what Biden has said and done has been uncontroversial, and she's had few tricky shoals to navigate in terms of race, feminism or immigrant background.
    USA Today, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Where the Spartans are ranked on Tuesday evening will impact the landing spot for several teams outside of what should be an uncontroversial top four.
    Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2021
  • In most election years, that process is uncontroversial.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2021
  • This is all pretty well-established and uncontroversial: the first WBGT guidelines for races were developed back in 1983.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 15 June 2020
  • So who holds the crown depends on the unit of measure, but the top two most prolific mathematicians are uncontroversial.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
  • In previous decades, this measure by the leader of the country’s most populous state might have been uncontroversial.
    Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2021
  • For the last three decades, a landmark piece of legislation aimed at protecting women had been assumed to be durable and uncontroversial.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Bailey has managed to keep his views on politics and Brexit uncontroversial enough to be acceptable to both sides.
    Ian Mount, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2019
  • As far as Gladwellian provocations go, this one seems fairly uncontroversial to me.
    Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 11 June 2022
  • This uncontroversial grouping is followed by No. 5 Ohio State, which drops just three spots after being handed a second ugly loss in a row to the rival Wolverines.
    Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Sheikh Nawaf was largely an uncontroversial choice for emir, though his advancing age led analysts to suggest that his tenure would be short.
    Jon Gambrell The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The pros and cons Zuckerberg’s decision is not uncontroversial.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 18 July 2023
  • Advertisers weary of the choppy politics and brand boycotts of the Trump years see weather as a relatively uncontroversial port in the squall.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2021
  • The answer isn’t to hope board meetings remain uncontroversial.
    Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023

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