as in illogical
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Recent Examples of unscientific
Modern thinkers stopped using these concepts altogether except in quotation marks, with a wink, a smirk, and a glance backward toward the unscientific past.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
From our informal and unscientific testing, Claude's search results appeared fairly accurate and detailed at a glance, but that is no guarantee of overall accuracy.
—Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
Double-zero at midnight is my personal roulette ritual, if anybody’s daft enough to follow my thoroughly unscientific methodology.
—David Weiss, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
My own unscientific surveys among Oscar voters indicate a race all over the map, with the younger contingent more Anora-friendly, the older voters more inclined toward Conclave.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2025
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Isaac Bashevis Singer, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
From our informal and unscientific testing, Claude's search results appeared fairly accurate and detailed at a glance, but that is no guarantee of overall accuracy.
—Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
Double-zero at midnight is my personal roulette ritual, if anybody’s daft enough to follow my thoroughly unscientific methodology.
—David Weiss, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
My own unscientific surveys among Oscar voters indicate a race all over the map, with the younger contingent more Anora-friendly, the older voters more inclined toward Conclave.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscientific
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Which was probably to be expected, given that making a new entry in this franchise doesn’t require jumping through too many illogical hoops or reinventing an outdated conceit.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
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His insight and unconventional approach to understanding human behavior lead him and the team on a series of intense, unexpected journeys to solve illogical puzzles and perplexing mysteries.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
9 May 2025
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One thing that’s been a challenge to satirists in the last 10 years is that reality has become so absurd, with the dumbest possible things happening every day, that there doesn’t always seem to be another level for satire to go to.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2025
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Read it because existence is absurd, and laughter might be the most intelligent response available.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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It's forged in the quiet, difficult moments when doing the right thing seems irrational.—
Victoria Vitchenco,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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Rejecting his challenge in February 2024, Britain’s High Court said the decision to change Harry’s security status was neither irrational nor procedurally unfair.—
Henry Austin,
NBC news,
2 May 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
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Schools must accept that mission statements without curriculum alignment are fatuous; the way schools define themselves is through the experience that flows from their curriculum.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes,
1 Oct. 2024
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Bottom line: Kamara put up preposterous numbers right out of the gate.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
21 May 2025
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Sears was also the big winner in the shooting drills, making a preposterous 86 of his 107 shots.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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Not just on the training pitch but in the dorm rooms, talking about the future and giggling at stupid jokes.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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President Donald Trump said only stupid people would refuse a $400 million gift.—
Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
17 May 2025
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At this juncture, a 10-7 regular season record isn’t unreasonable.—
Charley Walters,
Twin Cities,
25 May 2025
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Are my feelings unreasonable? – Mother-of-the-Groom Gloom Dear Mother: Your feelings are completely reasonable.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
23 May 2025
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The constant back-and-forth, delays, and false starts, along with the massive cost overruns associated with nuclear construction, have rendered French energy policy incoherent and placed a burden on its neighbors.—
Daniel Markind,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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And a global order that, for all its drawbacks, has made world war more of a prospect than a fact for several decades is now subject to the whims of President Trump, who has developed the most incoherent of positions: that of the bellicose unilateral noninterventionist.—
Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
9 May 2025
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“Unscientific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscientific. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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