Unrepresentative is an English word with synonyms like atypical or untypical. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Unrepresentative in a sentence
Unrepresentative meaning
Not representative
Using Unrepresentative
- The main meaning on this page is: Not representative
- Useful related words include: atypical, untypical.
- In the example corpus, unrepresentative often appears in combinations such as: unrepresentative of, an unrepresentative, is unrepresentative.
Context around Unrepresentative
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 9 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Unrepresentative
- In this selection, "unrepresentative" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 29.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, too, wildly, involving, government, picture and populations stand out and add context to how "unrepresentative" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a very unrepresentative picture and are wildly unrepresentative of the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "unrepresentative" sits close to words such as abdulkadir, abed and abhay, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with unrepresentative
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He concluded that Kinsey's sample was unrepresentative of the general population. (12 words)
Someone who doesn’t know the business and just looks at historical cash flow will see a very unrepresentative picture. (20 words)
Russia’s political and economic woes share one factor in common: Putin, and the self-serving, unrepresentative, opaque regime he runs. (21 words)
I found this too in my discovery, at this time, of Mary McCarthy’s generation-defining 1963 novel was so satisfactory, yet so unrepresentative of my particular just-pre-millennial London world, that it made me want to write my own. (41 words)
In particular, extra time periods can be tense and unentertaining as sides are too tired and nervous to attack, preferring to defend and play for penalties; whilst penalty shootouts are often described as based upon luck, and unrepresentative of football. (40 words)
At the same time, the Coalition continues to be dominated by middle-aged white men, is unrepresentative in terms of female MPs, and the current token team fades into insignificance compared to Penny Wong or Tanya Plibersek. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
At the same time, the Coalition continues to be dominated by middle-aged white men, is unrepresentative in terms of female MPs, and the current token team fades into insignificance compared to Penny Wong or Tanya Plibersek.
Pitching victories might be a discounted data point in baseball’s modern analytics, written off as an old-school relic too unrepresentative of a singular performance.
She says the Met is unrepresentative of Londoners, noting that “Met officers are 82% white and 71% male” and that “the Met does not look like the majority of Londoners”.
Someone who doesn’t know the business and just looks at historical cash flow will see a very unrepresentative picture.
The meeting was opened by the founder of Make Votes Matter Klina Jordan, who told attendees that ‘unrepresentative government’ is holding the UK back from addressing the climate crisis.
I found this too in my discovery, at this time, of Mary McCarthy’s generation-defining 1963 novel was so satisfactory, yet so unrepresentative of my particular just-pre-millennial London world, that it made me want to write my own.
I’m glad to be described as a separatist because the alternative is to be an apologist for an unrepresentative government in Westminster and to abdicate decision making to that same out-of-touch group.
In one way or another, lots of states are wildly unrepresentative of the country or the Democratic Party as a whole, so we’d just end up cycling through one bad option after another.
Now, for the first time, we have the numbers that show us just how representative – or rather, unrepresentative – the state of play is.
It’s also that the data we have are usually collected in one-off studies involving unrepresentative populations over short spans of time.
Presently, your water purveyor tests your water supplies for a chemical mix that is outdated, unrepresentative of what you use in your area, and insufficient in both frequency and scope.
Russia’s political and economic woes share one factor in common: Putin, and the self-serving, unrepresentative, opaque regime he runs.
But if they play their cards right, they may be able to highlight the single most important issue now confronting American democracy: increasingly unrepresentative minority rule.
Lerner, who has intermittently served as a member of the Templeton Foundation’s Board of Advisors since 2003, called Harrison’s views “abhorrent” if true but ultimately unrepresentative of the Templeton family.
Out of a mix of curiosity and desperation, we turned to our (far from scientific) weekly Twitter polls to get some (possibly very unrepresentative) responses.
Conversely, though every president from Washington to John Quincy Adams can be definitely assigned membership in an Anglican or Unitarian body, the significance of these affiliations is often downplayed as unrepresentative of their true beliefs.
He concluded that Kinsey's sample was unrepresentative of the general population.
In particular, extra time periods can be tense and unentertaining as sides are too tired and nervous to attack, preferring to defend and play for penalties; whilst penalty shootouts are often described as based upon luck, and unrepresentative of football.
Proponents describe a key element in the concept of "militia" was that to be "genuine" it not be a "select militia", composed of an unrepresentative subset of the population.
Rather, he blames the Jewish War on what he calls "unrepresentative and over-zealous fanatics" among the Jews, who led the masses away from their traditional aristocratic leaders (like himself), with disastrous results.
Common combinations with unrepresentative
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- unrepresentative of 11×
- an unrepresentative 4×
- is unrepresentative 2×
- unrepresentative in 2×
- very unrepresentative 2×
- unrepresentative government 2×
- and unrepresentative 2×
- unrepresentative and 2×