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unexamined

American  
[uhn-ig-zam-ind] / ˌʌn ɪgˈzæm ɪnd /

adjective

  1. not having been examined; not inspected, explored, questioned, or thoroughly considered.


Example Sentences

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What we are watching with her is someone collecting new credibility with each provocative and unlikely alliance while the actual content of her work continues largely unexamined by the outlets that cover her rise.

From Salon • May 23, 2026

As my colleagues and I argue in a friend-of-the-court brief for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the justices shouldn’t let the religious-liberty consequences of this case go unexamined.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

Baldwin’s attorneys accused the state of misconduct, pointing to a batch of unexamined bullets that a potential witness turned over to sheriff’s investigators in March 2024.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2025

But there is this unexamined and uninterrogated idea that some received procedure is the only thing that we have to evaluate what’s happening against now.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2025

While the mass of men went on leading thoroughly unexamined lives of monstrous consumption, Augustus Waters examined the collection of the Rijksmuseum from afar.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

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