unpopular

Example Sentences

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He faced an unpopular incumbent in Mayor Karen Bass.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

He called Colbert’s exit “the beginning of the end” for other late-night hosts and repeated claims that the comedian’s work had been unpopular and declining.

From Salon • May 23, 2026

Another unpopular law -- since thrown out -- reclassified small agricultural holdings as medium-sized properties, which Indigenous communities viewed as a loss of their rights.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

AI is unpopular with many Americans, not least because of fears that it could wipe out swaths of white-collar jobs—and hurt early-career professionals, in particular.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Few laws or acts of Congress have ever been so unpopular with so many people as the Eighteenth Amendment.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler