as in illogical
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Recent Examples of unscientific
Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who will be ranking member during Oz’s confirmation next year, mentioned Oz’s history of unscientific endorsements as an area of concern.
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Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 20 Nov. 2024
Worse, hiring managers select and promote in their own image, or use unscientific and intuitive methods like interviewing.
—Dave Winsborough, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
The Baltimore Sun Reader Poll is an unscientific survey in which website users volunteer their opinions on the subject of the poll.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2024
The big picture: According to a (very unscientific) survey of 122 Axios Phoenix readers:
⏰ 9pm is the latest trick-or-treaters should ring the doorbell.
—Jessica Boehm, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
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Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 20 Nov. 2024
Worse, hiring managers select and promote in their own image, or use unscientific and intuitive methods like interviewing.
—Dave Winsborough, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
The Baltimore Sun Reader Poll is an unscientific survey in which website users volunteer their opinions on the subject of the poll.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2024
The big picture: According to a (very unscientific) survey of 122 Axios Phoenix readers:
⏰ 9pm is the latest trick-or-treaters should ring the doorbell.
—Jessica Boehm, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscientific
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Curiosity In The Billable Hour World In a world where every minute counts, taking what may feel like the long way around can seem illogical.Hunter McMahon, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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This is a holiday movie, so Avery and Logan decide to handle this situation in the most illogical way possible.Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2024
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But the series, like the film, shows that vampires are also multidimensional — vulnerable, emotional, funny, absurd — and completely out of place in the modern world.Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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Photo: Their lives often appear dramatic and borderline absurd.Daisy Jones, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2024
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The lines — in banana yellows, tangerine oranges, cranberry reds — twist and turn and suggest an irrational understanding of how the universe works.Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2024
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To prevent yourself from imposing irrational penalties, set up house rules that outline logical consequences in advance.Leslie Garisto Pfaff, Parents, 12 Dec. 2024
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This fatuous facial gesture is immediately relatable but also, as Locke discusses below, one that can be read in a number of different ways.Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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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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But the foundation here is shaky: A wildly erratic tone and an overload of preposterous cliffhangers end up spoiling all the fun, leaving us with a bad case of buyer’s remorse.Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 12 Dec. 2024
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Surely, such a preposterous query couldn’t have been levied this season?Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 Dec. 2024
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For the people stupid enough to have trusted a midwit career bureaucrat as unscrupulous as President Joe Biden, there’s a sixth stage just before acceptance: delusion.Becket Adams, National Review, 8 Dec. 2024
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Wild Card with Rachel Martin Issa Rae on the belief that gets her through 'stupid mistakes and bad decisions' Lithgow: More.Rachel Martin, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
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Left in the dust ‘Cruise’ driverless robot taxis are seen at a parking lot as California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revokes its self-driving car permit and citing ‘unreasonable risk to public safety’ in San Francisco, California, USA on October 24, 2023.Kristian Burt, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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To determine whether those amounts posed an unreasonable risk of harm, the agency compared them to a specific benchmark — the highest concentration of formaldehyde measured by government monitors in outdoor air between 2015 and 2020.Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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Excited delirium deaths in South Florida and across the country share commonalities: a sweating, agitated, incoherent man detached from reality — often high on cocaine or synthetic drugs — is restrained, sometimes aggressively, by police.Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
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The audience follows her perspective across history to show that all of those seemingly incoherent mumblings sprinkled throughout the previous episodes can be strung together to form crucial clues about what comes later in the season.EW Staff, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Unscientific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscientific. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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