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as in harmful
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as in impractical
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as in impolite
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Recent Examples of unhelpful
In many cases, the federal tax law’s existing provisions intended to help victims of disasters rebuild without facing taxes have been unhelpful or incomplete.
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Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
At the other end of the spectrum were the complaints that the role was toothless and an unhelpful layer of bureaucracy.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2024
Trump choosing a confidante for this position and others creates unhelpful groupthink that could potentially lead to bad decision-making for U.S. students, Wil Del Pilar, senior vice president of the advocacy group The Education Trust, told ABC News.
—Arthur Jones Ii, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2024
The bottom line: Give yourself permission to spend reasonably, and work to unlearn unhelpful patterns from youth
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—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
At the other end of the spectrum were the complaints that the role was toothless and an unhelpful layer of bureaucracy.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2024
Trump choosing a confidante for this position and others creates unhelpful groupthink that could potentially lead to bad decision-making for U.S. students, Wil Del Pilar, senior vice president of the advocacy group The Education Trust, told ABC News.
—Arthur Jones Ii, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2024
The bottom line: Give yourself permission to spend reasonably, and work to unlearn unhelpful patterns from youth
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—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unhelpful
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As a result, regulators will introduce more stringent rules and frameworks aimed at curbing the harmful effects of false information.Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Many advocacy organizations have also warned that age verification laws that require users to provide their government IDs pose serious privacy threats, while not actually protecting minors from harmful online content.James Factora, Them, 6 Jan. 2025
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For instance, unused network segments can be powered down temporarily to save energy, a task that would be impractical to manage manually across thousands of network sites.Robert Backhouse, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Experts dismiss an analogous design for the U.S. as impractical—Israel's defenses are vastly different to the U.S. for several reasons, not least the size of the country and who is doing the targeting.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
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One of the myths Dunlap tackles in her book is that talking about money is impolite.Katy McFee, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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The typical solution is to berate co-workers for misusing the channel, which is impolite, hurts everyone’s feelings and does not work.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2024
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Governments, meanwhile, may use their powers over information to suppress unfavorable narratives: laws originally aimed at misinformation, many enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic, can hinder free expression.Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2025
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Leading books have grappled with unfavorable sports outcomes in recent quarters.Matt Rybaltowski, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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The insurance typically covers personal belongings and a unit’s interior and provides benefits such as living expenses if a condo becomes unusable.Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
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Instead, the law would penalize internet providers and companies with App stores like Apple and Google for continuing to make updates available, The New York Times reported, so the app would degrade over time and become unusable.Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Donald Trump engages in sort of thoughtless insane tariff policy that ends up in prices going up, but jobs not being created in the United States.NBC News, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2024
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Cash is also seen as thoughtless and low-effort, says Julian Givi, associate professor of marketing at West Virginia University.Allie Volpe, Vox, 19 Nov. 2024
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Mother Nature exploded in Los Angeles this month with the most damaging wildfires in the city’s, and likely the nation’s, history.Carmen Balber, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
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The two most damaging active blazes – the Palisades Fire, the most destructive in the city's history, and the Eaton Fire – were 19% and 45% contained, respectively, according to Cal Fire's latest updates Wednesday.Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
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Without that essential training to help surmount powerful systemic barriers, the kit would have been useless—and in that sense, the job is still woefully unfinished.Sheila McClear, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2025
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Esoteric knowledge of the parks, essentially useless anywhere else, is suddenly incredibly useful.Darryn King, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Unhelpful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhelpful. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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