unloved

Example Sentences

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GameStop rose to prominence as a "meme stock", which sees retail investors buy up shares in unloved companies that professional investors have bet against, causing the share price to rise and fall sharply.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Many unloved species are synanthropic—they exploit waste created by humans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Purifoy’s fantastical assemblages made of found objects and unloved detritus provided the most fitting example of the creative desert mindset.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

“If it was cheap, unloved, and had a balance sheet I could get my arms around, I was interested,” he writes in a Tuesday post.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

I couldn’t stop reading about the horrors—especially the stories about orphan asylums filled with unloved and underfed waifs.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan