unsystematic

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Recent Examples of unsystematic Attacks are unsystematic and on residential areas. Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022 In investing, there are two primary types of broad risks: systematic and unsystematic risk. Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021 Diversification does not usually affect the systematic risk that applies to the financial markets; instead, diversification is primarily used to eliminate or reduce unsystematic risk. Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021 Impressed by this fact, Koolhaas and his partners use the exhibition to traverse the (mostly) uninhabited earth with unsystematic abandon. Nikil Saval, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020 If RaDVaC intends to produce generalizable knowledge about this vaccine, unsystematic self-experimentation is unlikely to produce useful information. Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2020 This was a radical idea in China, where scholars had always researched the past through manuscripts in the safety of their libraries, or at most, made unsystematic studies of the imperial palaces in Beijing. Stefen Chow, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017 This was a radical idea in China, where scholars had always researched the past through manuscripts in the safety of their libraries, or at most, made unsystematic studies of the imperial palaces in Beijing. Stefen Chow, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsystematic
Adjective
  • Modern gill nets can be incredibly destructive and indiscriminate.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Civilians’ experience of Israel’s strikes as indiscriminate and ubiquitous further influences their decision-making.
    Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Marine biologists had thought that the pelvic bones were purposeless in the marine environment, and would eventually disappear given another million or so years of evolution.
    Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2014
  • But here’s a question: How much longer can the country afford to lure so many of its promising talents into a life of purposeless paper-pushing and legalized economic vandalism that antitrust has become?
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 10 May 2022
Adjective
  • However, neither his appearance nor his attitude was haphazard.
    Bob Pisani, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Instead of relying on haphazard observations and product claims, the Outside Lab @ CU Denver set up an experiment to find out which travel mug keeps beverages warmest the longest.
    Adam Trenkamp, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2024

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“Unsystematic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsystematic. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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