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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For instance, these groups criticized Israel's pager attack on Hezbollah as being indiscriminate because a handful of civilians were unfortunately injured and killed out of the thousands of Hezbollah fighters who were effectively removed from the battlefield.—
Kevin Lynn,
Newsweek,
6 Jan. 2025
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But the combination of executive orders, laws and military commands were indiscriminate and their brunt fell upon innocent Japanese Americans, who were forced into concentration camps without regard for their loyalty, only their ancestry.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Dec. 2024
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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
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Why some houses burn and others survive isn’t always obvious and can seem capricious and haphazard, despite preparation and mitigation.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
11 Jan. 2025
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Efforts to reform the system that has shielded oil companies from liability have been haphazard.—
Mark Olalde,
ProPublica,
30 Dec. 2024
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“Unsystematic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsystematic. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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