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Recent Examples of unreceptive
And now, Democrats warned, targeting nominees' résumés risks reinforcing the image that the party is unreceptive to the beliefs of everyday Americans about what ails the country.
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Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
Minority students tended to leave school for reasons including inadequate high school preparation, unreceptive and alien campus environments and inadequate career counseling.
—Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 29 Feb. 2024
This is not likely to be effective given that conspiratorial thinking tends to become so entrenched that the believer comes to be entirely unreceptive to reasons.
—Rafael Perez, Orange County Register, 12 Apr. 2024
This film is a prime example of how the sci-fi genre helps creators to pass along (often very preachy) messages to otherwise unreceptive audiences.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2023
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Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
Minority students tended to leave school for reasons including inadequate high school preparation, unreceptive and alien campus environments and inadequate career counseling.
—Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 29 Feb. 2024
This is not likely to be effective given that conspiratorial thinking tends to become so entrenched that the believer comes to be entirely unreceptive to reasons.
—Rafael Perez, Orange County Register, 12 Apr. 2024
This film is a prime example of how the sci-fi genre helps creators to pass along (often very preachy) messages to otherwise unreceptive audiences.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreceptive
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Conservative dissatisfaction with mainstream brands has led to the launch of a series of partisan products including 'Ultra Right' beer, created in response to Bud Light's relationship with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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Some widely circulated by partisan sources were certainly unfair to Biden.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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The inherent orthodoxy of his premise excluded all other alternatives to narrow-minded rationalism and its ethical constraints.—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Of the trio, Bernadette was written as the strictest rule-follower — possibly even the most narrow-minded.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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This solution reinforced my own experience with what felt like biased and unfair systems.—
Jyoti Jani,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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The defense lawyers have accused Proctor of manipulating evidence and conducting a biased investigation.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
9 May 2025
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Caton’s attorneys filed to dismiss the charges after Oleson was disbarred from practicing law in Idaho, arguing that continuing with the case was improper and prejudiced their client.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
9 Apr. 2025
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Judge John Judge granted the defense motion to move the trial out of Latah County due to concerns the local community is prejudiced against him.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
1 May 2025
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However, that is only a partial consolation: to buy back those months, borrowers must make extra lump-sum payments for each month of forbearance and wait for those payments to be processed and credited.—
Shahar Ziv,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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This week in politics The Kansas Department of Transportation is now managing six bridge projects in Wyandotte County associated with four complete bridge closures, several partial closures and additional lane restrictions.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
21 May 2025
Adjective
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Moto Moto, run by the spunky Rashida (Arica Jackson) and emceed by the exuberant Ahmed (Nick Rashad Burroughs) becomes a hotbed of heterogeneity (there’s even a shaman) in a culture that is otherwise intolerant of mixing.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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We were just expected to be OK with it, to shove down our discomfort, our embarrassment, our fear, because standing up for ourselves would mean being labeled as intolerant or hateful or bigoted.—
Jackson Thompson,
Fox News,
5 Feb. 2025
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Despite this ostensible colonization of trans bodies, Céspedes trains his camera on the inherent humanity of all his subjects, including his most bigoted aggressors.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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Attempting to smear the DNI as being in a cult is bigoted behavior.—
Tim Marchman,
Wired News,
6 May 2025
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“Unreceptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreceptive. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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