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Recent Examples of unselective
The kind of person, in other words, who these days tends to start a college career—typically at an unselective school—but all-too-often ends up dropping out.
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2012
The cult film Idiocracy (2006) imagines a future in which Americans' mental capacities have been degraded by generations of pop culture, junk food, and–how to put this delicately–unselective breeding.
—Samuel Goldman, The Week, 1 Mar. 2022
With an unselective online-only model seeking to scale rapidly, Lambda is likely to end up somewhere between (free) MOOCs and (costly) for-profit online universities, which – given its ISA model – sounds about right.
—Ryan Craig, Forbes, 28 May 2021
Its wide muzzle suggests unselective bulk-feeding on grasses and low-growing herbs.
—Smithsonian, 8 May 2018
But Pakistani officials went to pains to say the toll was unselective, with Muslims and Christians among the dead and bereaved.
—Daniyal Hassan, Naila Inayat and Salman Masood, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2016
Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2012
The cult film Idiocracy (2006) imagines a future in which Americans' mental capacities have been degraded by generations of pop culture, junk food, and–how to put this delicately–unselective breeding.
—Samuel Goldman, The Week, 1 Mar. 2022
With an unselective online-only model seeking to scale rapidly, Lambda is likely to end up somewhere between (free) MOOCs and (costly) for-profit online universities, which – given its ISA model – sounds about right.
—Ryan Craig, Forbes, 28 May 2021
Its wide muzzle suggests unselective bulk-feeding on grasses and low-growing herbs.
—Smithsonian, 8 May 2018
But Pakistani officials went to pains to say the toll was unselective, with Muslims and Christians among the dead and bereaved.
—Daniyal Hassan, Naila Inayat and Salman Masood, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unselective
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Remember to be open-minded, honest and uncritical regarding one another’s stances.Mark Travers, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Any nonpartisan journalist or editor overseeing political coverage would balk at uncritical reporting on one side and full-on confrontation with the other.Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
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Tenants at the time included consulting and law firms, financial advisory and investment firms, as well as the usual mélange of random, oddball businesses.Kim Velsey, Curbed, 19 Dec. 2024
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So in addition to a random chance and bad infrastructure design causing this collision and human driver being at fault, in addition to all of that, the company then did not give all of the information to investigators after the crash.Michael Calore, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
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The entire ordeal was put together in a somewhat haphazard way that seemed consistent with her age and experience.Jessie Sage, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2024
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Nunez’s finishing here was like Nunez’s finishing everywhere: deeply, irredeemably haphazard.Jack Lang, The Athletic, 10 July 2024
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Its function is for undemanding use and its nostalgic output.Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2024
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The seemingly undemanding growth needed for EPS expansion appealed to us, especially at current valuation levels.Michael Bloom, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2024
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Starring Adam DeVine, Blake Anderson and Anders Holm, the Southern California-set comedy follows members of an aimless friend group with Peter Pan syndrome, who work at a telemarketing company 9 to 5 and live together 5 to 9.Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 22 Dec. 2024
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Critical possessions no longer feel aimless, as the Suns are flowing into their offense with intention.Shane Young, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Get the ring that’s perfect for the woman, not the ring whose price tag aligns with an arbitrary algorithm. 18.Alexandra Macon, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2024
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After all, so many of the norms that make disability so inconvenient—font sizes, the height at which a drawing is hung—are utterly arbitrary, and so can be reinvented.Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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There are no twisted strings, no mangled head, no desultory tossing of the useless implement to the side.James Hansen, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
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Trade between the states remains strong, yet communication between the two countries, once robust, is now mostly desultory meetings between officials and foreign ministers.Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2021
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Was all this slapdash music generation serving in some way to devalue music in my life? Max Vehuni, one half of the indie-pop duo slenderbodies, talked me off that ledge.Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
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All that history means Delta is far from a slapdash app quickly thrown together to take advantage of Apple's new openness to emulation.Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2024
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“Unselective.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unselective. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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