unsystematic

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Recent Examples of unsystematic Nevertheless, higher but more stable prices without the market-distorting effects of unsystematic subsidization are a net gain for China and foreign investors alike. Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025 Attacks are unsystematic and on residential areas. Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsystematic
Adjective
  • Use of the weapons, the plaintiffs argued, amounted to an indiscriminate use of force that infringed upon their rights.
    Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The gang has been nvolved in indiscriminate civilian killings, extortion, illicit taxation and kidnappings, Treasury said.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • In How To Do Nothing, Jenny Odell talks about how the pursuit of productivity — driven by capitalism, competition, and consumption — has redirected our attention outward, leaving us feeling empty and purposeless.
    refinery29.com, refinery29.com, 7 Sep. 2021
Adjective
  • The Craftsman-style bungalow was originally built in the 1940s and withstood several haphazard additions and renovations before Haury and Saikami got their hands on it.
    Linne Halpern, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2025
  • OpenAI’s messaging was haphazard to Hollywood.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Clark felt lost, alone and directionless.
    Autumn Barnes, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The action begins as an angry, volatile, directionless young man goes out for a night on the town with friends, drinking, drugging and looking for a fight.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Unsystematic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsystematic. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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