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unfair

[uhn-fair] / ʌnˈfɛər /


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Martin Puchner, an English professor, said the current grading system always felt unfair to the most accomplished students.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

It is inaccurate and unfair to characterize work produced in the manner described by any of these authors as “AI-generated.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Eventually we learned I had an immune condition; I also had mono, which felt cosmically unfair considering I had not yet been kissed and suspected I’d contracted it from the skating rink water fountain.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

"A sporting choice. A difficult choice and maybe a hard choice - and maybe to a certain degree unfair, but these choices have to be made."

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

After the Night of Terror, several dozen other women joined with Alice Paul in her hunger strike to protest their unfair and intolerable treatment.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling