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
"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
But such unpromising places often harbored among the rarest plants and beetles, von der Lippe says.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 2, 2022
Helmut is a small, unpromising child from the south who keeps his hands balled in fists nearly all his waking hours.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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