Example Sentences

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I have never wanted to be the unprogressive, afraid-of-technology type of writer or professor.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2023

Just as in the XC90 T8 I drove in 2015, the sedan’s brake response was sometimes touchy and unprogressive around town, with the friction brakes and regenerative braking seeming to saw at each other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2018

If summer is the time for anything, it’s the time for refreshingly unprogressive comedies like Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.

From Time • Jul. 7, 2016

Roy Gibson, vice president of Du Pont's St. Joseph Telephone & Telegraph Co., charged in a public speech that Maloney was pursuing an "unprogressive anti-business policy" in his paper.

From Time Magazine Archive

The British post office was at that time passing through one of its unprogressive periods.

From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Smith, William, Sir