as in indiscriminate
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Recent Examples of unsystematic
Nevertheless, higher but more stable prices without the market-distorting effects of unsystematic subsidization are a net gain for China and foreign investors alike.
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Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Attacks are unsystematic and on residential areas.
—Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
In investing, there are two primary types of broad risks: systematic and unsystematic risk.
—Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
Diversification does not usually affect the systematic risk that applies to the financial markets; instead, diversification is primarily used to eliminate or reduce unsystematic risk.
—Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
Impressed by this fact, Koolhaas and his partners use the exhibition to traverse the (mostly) uninhabited earth with unsystematic abandon.
—Nikil Saval, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
If RaDVaC intends to produce generalizable knowledge about this vaccine, unsystematic self-experimentation is unlikely to produce useful information.
—Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2020
This was a radical idea in China, where scholars had always researched the past through manuscripts in the safety of their libraries, or at most, made unsystematic studies of the imperial palaces in Beijing.
—Stefen Chow, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
This was a radical idea in China, where scholars had always researched the past through manuscripts in the safety of their libraries, or at most, made unsystematic studies of the imperial palaces in Beijing.
—Stefen Chow, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Attacks are unsystematic and on residential areas.
—Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
In investing, there are two primary types of broad risks: systematic and unsystematic risk.
—Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
Diversification does not usually affect the systematic risk that applies to the financial markets; instead, diversification is primarily used to eliminate or reduce unsystematic risk.
—Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
Impressed by this fact, Koolhaas and his partners use the exhibition to traverse the (mostly) uninhabited earth with unsystematic abandon.
—Nikil Saval, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
If RaDVaC intends to produce generalizable knowledge about this vaccine, unsystematic self-experimentation is unlikely to produce useful information.
—Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2020
This was a radical idea in China, where scholars had always researched the past through manuscripts in the safety of their libraries, or at most, made unsystematic studies of the imperial palaces in Beijing.
—Stefen Chow, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
This was a radical idea in China, where scholars had always researched the past through manuscripts in the safety of their libraries, or at most, made unsystematic studies of the imperial palaces in Beijing.
—Stefen Chow, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsystematic
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The indiscriminate killing of women and children at night in their homes is a clear violation of the 1977 Geneva Peace Protocols designed to protect innocents.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
25 May 2025
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Zavaleta said the committee’s initial recommendation had been in response in part to concerns about indiscriminate killing of coyotes raised by animal rights groups, which continued to press Thursday for protections for the wild canines.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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Marine biologists had thought that the pelvic bones were purposeless in the marine environment, and would eventually disappear given another million or so years of evolution.—
Carl Engelking,
Discover Magazine,
9 Sep. 2014
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But here’s a question: How much longer can the country afford to lure so many of its promising talents into a life of purposeless paper-pushing and legalized economic vandalism that antitrust has become?—
Holman W. Jenkins,
WSJ,
10 May 2022
Adjective
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Additionally, as this week’s stock market slump revealed, haphazard threats do not happen in a vacuum.—
Aroop Mukharji,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Mar. 2025
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In lieu of federal regulation, there was a haphazard patchwork of state and local laws surrounding certain foods pre-1906.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
1 May 2025
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“Unsystematic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsystematic. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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