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Recent Examples of unscientific
These results are unscientific and subject to change, of course.
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Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Granted, people’s memories can get a little hazy at times, but here’s an unscientific sample of what some other metro music fans hold dearest about Memorial Hall.
—Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
Net-zero always was a farcical, unscientific and unrealistic dogma designed to reorder societies and increase government and bureaucratic control over the economy, with ever-diminishing freedom for individuals.
—Peter Murphy, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025
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, 18 Aug. 2025
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Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Granted, people’s memories can get a little hazy at times, but here’s an unscientific sample of what some other metro music fans hold dearest about Memorial Hall.
—Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
Net-zero always was a farcical, unscientific and unrealistic dogma designed to reorder societies and increase government and bureaucratic control over the economy, with ever-diminishing freedom for individuals.
—Peter Murphy, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025
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, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscientific
Adjective
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Word also, unfortunately, retains some seemingly illogical features from versions that date back several decades.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
18 Oct. 2025
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The film had transformed from the messy, illogical version I’d first seen into a hilarious, shrewd, contemplative work of art.—
Susan Orlean,
New Yorker,
11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The film’s ever-so-slightly absurd sincerity is nothing if not brazen.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
22 Oct. 2025
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Conceptions of world geography at the time were faulty to an almost absurd extent, Bergreen said.—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The study, published on the research platform arXiv, found that once the models were allowed to vary their bets and set their own targets, irrational behavior surged — and bankruptcy became a common outcome.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Poetry brings hope, not an irrational optimism or wishful thinking, but a positive orientation to the future, of what a better, healthier future would look like.—
K.J.S. “Sunny” Anand,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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The science author Stuart Clark notes that the concept was nonsensical to contemporary scientists, who assumed that magnetism could not break free from a magnet and that the Sun’s energy radiated equally across its surface.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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Concerned friends, both mine and his, counseled against him posting rambling, nonsensical monologues, and about his drug use.—
Coley Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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The fatuous Fed/1930s narrative raises a basic question: why are successful investors paid so well?—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
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So although these actions may seem fatuous on the surface, the next four years will be about looking for the undercurrents.—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The cost of doing so is preposterous — more than the government spends on the Department of the Interior, the FBI, or NASA.—
Sally C. Pipes,
Boston Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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Those numbers — down from his recent claim of 100,000 — are preposterous.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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And that’s a stupid, dumb, mindless question.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
25 Oct. 2025
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Dessert Week is the stupidest week, at least conceptually.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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The letter came in response to a September argument from the CPSC that the launching of a new rule-compliant product undermined the argument that the rule was unreasonable.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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This is not unreasonable in the least.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Unscientific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscientific. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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