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Recent Examples of unhistorical
Saying that ending our 43-year involvement [with] the EU is somehow going to fundamentally change this deep relationship between our two countries is completely unhistorical.
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Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2016
Well, certainly the most unhistorical.
—Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
Interpreting the Qur’an exclusively by reference to its text without invoking outside or later sources is injudicious and unhistorical. .
—Christopher Carroll, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2017
Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2016
Well, certainly the most unhistorical.
—Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
Interpreting the Qur’an exclusively by reference to its text without invoking outside or later sources is injudicious and unhistorical. .
—Christopher Carroll, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unhistorical
Adjective
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It’s described as a biopic, but Peppiatt admits some parts of the story are fictitious.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
23 Jan. 2025
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Detectives also found that Labelle allegedly altered several documents and provided the homeowner with fictitious receipts to deceive them, according to Riley.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
23 Jan. 2025
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The duo first shared the screen in 1999's Any Given Sunday, which follows a fictional professional football team.—
Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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In his office, Berg used an ice axe to pitch Smith on a collaboration, which would eventually follow a fictional frontiersman and mother-son duo navigating the Westward expansion.—
Abbey White,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The two sides will stop fighting for 42 days, with the aim (again, speculative) of making that cease-fire permanent and ending the war.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2025
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Yes, but: Those plans are dependent on Cleveland-Cliffs acquisition of U.S. Steel and are still only speculative.—
Sam Allard,
Axios,
15 Jan. 2025
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The movie is based on Colleen Hoover's book of the same name, which is a fictionalized retelling of her family's experience with domestic violence.—
Andy Biggs,
Newsweek,
24 Dec. 2024
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Dahmer, similarly, was accused of exploiting the murders in a fictionalized way that some believed even glorified him as a killer in some ways.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
22 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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Kuzma was posed that hypothetical Sunday night, after the loss to the Kings.—
Josh Robbins,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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The vast majority of cosmologists believe all of these phenomena can be explained through the presence of dark matter, a hypothetical form of matter that is massive, electrically neutral and hardly, if ever, interacts with normal matter.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The newspaper was referring to Planet Nine, a theoretical planet at the edge of the solar system.—
Ailsa Harvey,
Space.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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Martin Karplus, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical chemist who used computers to model how complex systems change during chemical reactions, died last month at 94.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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On the internet of yore, there was an apocryphal story about Jerry Seinfeld supposedly giving advice to software developer and would-be comedian Brad Isaac.—
Scott Gilbertson,
WIRED,
1 Jan. 2025
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There’s also the apocryphal story of Willie Nelson smoking marijuana during a White House visit; Nelson revealed in Rock & Roll President that the toker was actually Carter’s son.—
SPIN Staff,
SPIN,
29 Dec. 2024
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The Erik Wemple Blog asked the Times for another example of an editor’s note apologizing for nonfactual issues.—
Erik Wemple,
Washington Post,
27 Oct. 2022
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Yankovic, who wrote the film with its director Eric Appel, noted that the intention is to be satirical and nonfactual.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2022
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“Unhistorical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhistorical. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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