as in unimportant
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Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 21 Feb. 2025
Recommended Trump’s plan for Gaza ridiculed as unserious.
—Aakash Hassan, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2025
Perhaps the lower-pressure environment inspired some of the most unserious and unexpected moments of the night.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 8 Feb. 2025
Always detail oriented, Hurts appeared to have ironed and hemmed his pants, giving him the edge over Mahomes in this very unserious match-up.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2025
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Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 21 Feb. 2025
Recommended Trump’s plan for Gaza ridiculed as unserious.
—Aakash Hassan, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2025
Perhaps the lower-pressure environment inspired some of the most unserious and unexpected moments of the night.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 8 Feb. 2025
Always detail oriented, Hurts appeared to have ironed and hemmed his pants, giving him the edge over Mahomes in this very unserious match-up.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unserious
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But that’s not because the work of the public sector itself is unimportant.—
Adam Chandler,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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Council President Joe LaCava defended the city’s focus on something so relatively unimportant compared to closing a $258 million deficit that is expected to require substantial budget cuts.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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The other side: The group has been adept at filing complaints and lawsuits that make for good headlines, but it also has been rebuked in court for making frivolous arguments.—
Alex Thompson,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
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Her fluffy, frivolous style works well for Isla, who is a giggly pretty princess most of the time but a powder keg of anger when threatened.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA TODAY,
28 Feb. 2025
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Given this, there is no straightforward way to understand what a model is doing on an intuitive level, as from our perspective running inference on a model is nothing more than executing trillions of trivial operations such as addition and multiplication.—
Rahul Gudise,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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And figuring out that amount was not a trivial task.—
Jayson Stewart,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Mar. 2025
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What does that look like in what some would be considered as insignificant as a candle?—
Lisa Vernon Sparks,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Feb. 2025
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Screenings for unrelated conditions can pick up thyroid nodules that are technically cancerous but asymptomatic or clinically insignificant.—
Jenna Anderson,
Health,
25 Feb. 2025
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Using medieval art as one resource, Ariès pointed out that children were often portrayed as miniature adults, without special attributes, such as plump features or silly behaviors, that might mark them as fundamentally different from their older counterparts.—
Anna Mae Duane,
The Conversation,
5 Mar. 2025
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This will especially appeal to the silly preschoolers in the group!—
Amanda Rock,
Parents,
5 Mar. 2025
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The tablet runs Android 15 and has a light user interface treatment from TCL.—
Eric Zeman,
PCMAG,
3 Mar. 2025
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The result is a minimalist dashboard bisected by air vents, USB ports hidden in a lower under-dash storage area and light wood veneer panels that glow with backlighting at night.—
Scotty Reiss,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Beneath that ice, the light sensors recorded an astronomically small number of photons: an upper range of 0.04 micromoles per square meter per second, a number very close to the theoretical minimum amount of light that photosynthesis can run on.—
Asher Elbein,
WIRED,
2 Mar. 2025
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Have a small outdoor space but want to grow some plants and vegetables?—
Toni Sutton,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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“Unserious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unserious. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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