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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

The port of L.A. has come far from its unpromising beginnings.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 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

To figure out how to revegetate this unpromising ground, Olympic National Park hired then–36-year-old Chenoweth.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2023

A more unpromising child she had never seen, Kit thought, yet she couldn’t get Prudence out of her mind.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare




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