unwarranted

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The study states that the false belief has led "to negative consequences, including misinformed risk‐taking by those encountering snakes, unwarranted fear among snakebite victims, and inappropriate care delivered by misinformed or patient/family‐pressured medical professionals."

From Science Daily • Jul. 10, 2026

If the facilities are federally owned, Zoley replied, there are “more protections from unwarranted litigation that infringes upon the activities of the ICE processing centers.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2026

Still, plenty of investors cautioned that worries over a famine-to-feast scenario were unwarranted and that just a few confirmed incidents in the area could easily turn the clock back on the flow through the strait.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026

He added that the decision to wait for it to conclude "tacks on five or six years or more", describing it as "an unwarranted delay".

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Flappily, though, my fears turn out to be entirely unwarranted: during a month of poverty and toil, no one recognizes my face or my name, which goes unnoticed and for the most part unuttered.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich