How to Use unrepresentative in a Sentence

unrepresentative

adjective
  • The decision about who makes the November ballot is made by a small and unrepresentative group.
    — Steve Chessin, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The first is algorithmic bias, which comes from poor or unrepresentative training data.
    — John Asquith, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • But many Democrats for years have knocked both states as unrepresentative of the party as a whole, for being largely White with few major urban areas.
    — Kyle Morris, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2023
  • My own initial hunch is that the national media is very unrepresentative of America.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2012
  • The season’s first trophies are determined by a small, unrepresentative body of New Yorkers, some of whom are my co-workers.
    — Vulture, 27 Oct. 2023
  • My guess is that this will continue to produce extreme, unrepresentative, and unfit nominees for the most powerful office in the world.
    — Jay Cost, National Review, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Handy could make a compelling case for his write-in effort by arguing that party conventions are unrepresentative of the general electorate.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2022
  • That would merely be to replace the wishes of a historical elite with those of an equally unrepresentative contemporary group.
    — Kenan Malik, The New York Review of Books, 9 Sep. 2020
  • These titles are deeply unrepresentative of the texts that typically emerged from binders’ offices and printing chapels and that filled the stalls of booksellers and the pockets of readers.
    — Adam Smyth, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
  • This may be especially true for studies about new phenomena such as emerging variants, which are more likely to be based on small and unrepresentative samples.
    — Chenery Lowe, STAT, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Unless the test data was somehow faked or wildly unrepresentative, this is a compelling technology.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Many lawmakers cast that race as unrepresentative of the trend, noting that Dingell spent months longer than Crockett locking down support.
    — Andrew Solender, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Some critics dismiss the endorsements as unrepresentative of the electorate.
    — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Check it out, and notice how unrepresentative indicates that this person has lived in the Bronx, Chicago, and New York.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2012
  • Iowa, which is majority white, has increasingly been dinged by some Democrats as unrepresentative of the party's larger electorate.
    — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • But this observation is unrepresentative of most locations in the solar system, since it is biased by our proximity to the Sun.
    — Amir Siraj, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Only two Black women have served in the whole history of the Senate, which is, bluntly stated, wildly unrepresentative and a disgrace.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The nearly all-white jury — an unrepresentative sample of a county that is more than a quarter Black — must reach an unanimous decision on whether each of the defendants are guilty of murder.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
  • And the suit claims that an unrepresentative School Committee is unresponsive to the needs of Black and Latino students.
    — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2021
  • At a time when Americans are losing faith in democracy, voters cannot afford systems that hand victory to unrepresentative candidates and force them to play tactical games.
    — Andy Schultz, The Conversation, 2 Dec. 2025
  • In addition to the unrepresentative sample size, most of the studies Makary and Daniel cite in their article were not designed to measure the number of medical error deaths.
    — Molly Stellino, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Like Penn State, Oklahoma State is coming off a performance that was unrepresentative of its typical form.
    — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The members who are solidifying behind Mr Johnson, the most likely winner, are even more unrepresentative.
    — The Economist, 13 June 2019
  • But given their season-long inability to get out of their own way, those probabilities feel unrepresentative of a team that in just eight days went from an inside track on a postseason berth to one that is clinging to the last vestiges of hope.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The current leadership contest, however, has resulted in greater awareness of how unrepresentative the House of Commons is.
    — Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 20 July 2019
  • The Literary Digest sample was huge but unrepresentative.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Asked about 209 Times’ treatment of the grand jury findings, Sanchez attacked the panel as unrepresentative of the community.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • This isolation of the military shifts the burden of service to a small, unrepresentative segment of society, and removes the impetus for Americans to pay attention when their country goes to war.
    — Andrew Swick, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The Founders also consciously made the Senate unrepresentative, giving each state two seats regardless of population and leaving it to state legislators to fill them.
    — Maggie Astor, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Because the Senate, which gives the average voter in Wyoming 70 times as much weight as the average voter in California, is a deeply unrepresentative body.
    — Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2020

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