indiscriminating

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indiscriminating
Adjective
  • For a longer if equally uncritical account of the cartel’s activities, see Osram chairman William Meinhardt’s Entwicklung und Aufbau der Glühlampenindustrie (Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1932).
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2014
  • Defeated and afraid, the leadership in Helsinki settled into a long period of uncritical neutrality toward, if not subservience to, the Kremlin.
    Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2024
Adjective
  • The kind of person, in other words, who these days tends to start a college career—typically at an unselective school—but all-too-often ends up dropping out.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2012
  • The cult film Idiocracy (2006) imagines a future in which Americans' mental capacities have been degraded by generations of pop culture, junk food, and–how to put this delicately–unselective breeding.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 1 Mar. 2022
Adjective
  • Nonetheless, this is pleasantly undemanding fare targeting younger kids, and Ferrell is quite charming in the role.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Its function is for undemanding use and its nostalgic output.
    Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The results derived from a random sampling of 1,004 adults aged 18 and over living in all 50 states, based on phone interviews, with a margin of error plus or minus four percent and with a 95 percent confidence level.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Webroot can securely erase files for you, overwriting them with random data three times, by default.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The fantastical final product looks haphazard and far from realistic, but serves as a manifestation of their unattainable desires — which includes whitening their skin and erasing all facial blemishes.
    Carlos Aguilar, IndieWire, 8 Mar. 2025
  • These are professionals at work here, and yet the staging of virtually every kinetic showstopper feels haphazard at best.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Oh, the delicious irony of Mr. Only the Ivies Count Lest Your Child Fail to Launch having a daughter who’s in an aimless 19th month of a gap year between high school and college.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The aimless adventure of a young kid crisscrossing the city at all hours of the day and night resonated deeply with me as an adolescent.
    Juliana Barbassa, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
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“Indiscriminating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indiscriminating. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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