Example Sentences

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In the case of TRAPPIST-1’s planets, this means that one hemisphere may experience eternal daytime, and the other, eternal night: perhaps unideal conditions for life to evolve.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2023

“We held onto hope as long as we could,” but a forecast of unideal conditions forced a delay, the resort wrote on its website Monday.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2021

The splayed, unideal awkwardness of the figures, and the way they appear half buried in the ground, can be traced to Degas's bronzes.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is, in a sense, the ideal of the unideal.

From Time Magazine Archive

But my own observation assures me that, on the whole, these unideal motives played a very small part.

From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by Archer, William