unpromising
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Then there was World War II. Given Cooper’s eye injury and poor physique, he made for an unpromising soldier.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
The port of L.A. has come far from its unpromising beginnings.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2025
It was an unpromising start, and things only got worse from there.
From BBC • Nov. 2, 2024
To figure out how to revegetate this unpromising ground, Olympic National Park hired then–36-year-old Chenoweth.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 18, 2023
In creating modern maize from this unpromising plant, Indians performed a feat so improbable that archaeologists and biologists argued for decades over how it was achieved.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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