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unpromising

[uhn-prom-uh-sing] / ʌnˈprɒm ə sɪŋ /










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Beauty lives in the most unexpected places, grows from the most unpromising soils.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The port of L.A. has come far from its unpromising beginnings.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025

"We started with a site so unpromising that no-one had ever tried to excavate it - that's very rare in Italy," Dr Alessandro Launaro, the study's author said.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2023

From this unpromising site have risen stacks of factory-built steel modules punctuated by little green spaces.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

Lina had been watering it every night because she’d promised Clary she would, but it was still nothing but dirt, flat and unpromising.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau




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