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Recent Examples of unrepresentative
Although known for an unrepresentative workforce, tech companies embraced diversity initiatives, especially after the Black Lives Matter protests that followed the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.
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Joseph Menn The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
21 Jan. 2026
When left- and right-wingers agree that the United States is unrepresentative, that represents a mandate for disruption—from Trump in 2024 to Mamdani in 2025.
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Will Johnson,
Time,
1 Jan. 2026
Business within the neighboring countries and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region is also at stake, with regional leaders observing that an unrepresentative election process would detract from economic confidence in Myanmar and affect cross-border commercial ties.
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Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
22 Dec. 2025
So while not nearly as disastrous, there’s a precedent for a small sample size, like such, to be unrepresentative of a team’s final product.
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Noah White,
Miami Herald,
18 Nov. 2025
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Joseph Menn The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
21 Jan. 2026
When left- and right-wingers agree that the United States is unrepresentative, that represents a mandate for disruption—from Trump in 2024 to Mamdani in 2025.
—
Will Johnson,
Time,
1 Jan. 2026
Business within the neighboring countries and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region is also at stake, with regional leaders observing that an unrepresentative election process would detract from economic confidence in Myanmar and affect cross-border commercial ties.
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Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
22 Dec. 2025
So while not nearly as disastrous, there’s a precedent for a small sample size, like such, to be unrepresentative of a team’s final product.
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Noah White,
Miami Herald,
18 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrepresentative
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When this place is eventually gone — a phrase that feels truly bizarre given the environment this summer and the half-century preceding it — the lasting images will be the seas of red.
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Continue reading … 'DEEPLY WEIRD' — CNN panel's bizarre 'read as Jewish' comment about a senator draws fierce blowback.
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Others may miss the warmth of a person who can read the room, handle a strange request or help when something goes wrong.
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Canada coach Jesse Marsch gives strange interview after Morocco World Cup loss.
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Revisiting that article in the age of Musk the trillionaire feels almost quaint.
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Back then, wind power still conjured up images of quaint Dutch mills and creaky prairie water pumpers.
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With limited visibility into how AI systems operate and interact, continuous monitoring is critical to identify anomalous behavior and respond in real time.
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But the idea is that those kinds of disasters will be anomalous and calm, clean saves will be the norm.
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In this context, when screening healthy asymptomatic people who aren’t at high risk, the chance at an ideal screening result of identifying abnormal tissue that can be eliminated is very low.
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The abnormal heat has been driven by the onset of El Niño, a natural climate pattern characterized by unusually warm waters along the equatorial tropical Pacific Ocean.
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Rather than succumb to the misery of its subject matter, Union County is about the quiet, tedious, and remarkable work that is getting and staying sober — the final product a testament to all that can be achieved.
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These creative calculations suggest a grand total of about 20 million species of insects, many of them with behaviors and physical adaptations and remarkable lives scientists today can only dream of discovering.
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Then, drive to nearby Mitchell, just over an hour away, to visit the quirky and fun attraction that is The World's Only Corn Palace.
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The series showcases his quirky humor and his appetite for the unpredictable.
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The couple happily sells artworks on payment plans, a practice not unheard of in the gallery business, but generally atypical.
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Prosecutors chose to put the case before a grand jury to charge it, an atypical move for county court.
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“Unrepresentative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrepresentative. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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