unreasonably

Example Sentences

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Because the alternative, as I have learned so many times, is to get woken at 4 a.m. by the previous guest’s unreasonably early alarm setting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Other courts, more plausibly, have held that a takings claim can be brought only when a police officer is acting unreasonably in destroying property.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026

Those are questions a former Home Office minister describes as "the most basic" from voters who, not unreasonably, expect governments to keep them safe.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

To which Groucho replies, not unreasonably: “You call that nothing?”

From MarketWatch • Dec. 26, 2025

He suspected, not unreasonably, that he might be the only person in Berkeley looking for arbitrage opportunities in the market for credit derivatives.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis