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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

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

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

From New York Times • May 5, 2023

Rachel had the driver turn down this unpromising dirt road.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan




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