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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

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

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 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

Billy and the Maori dug into the inert, unpromising gravel of the moon.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut


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