Example Sentences

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It feels like a relic from a bygone age of simplicity: an entire season of reality TV hinging on the social lives of a group of unpolished teenagers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

On a conference call last April, an ad agency partner began presenting unpolished AI-generated images to make a point: Artificial intelligence wasn’t ready to take center stage in advertising.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

And while she praised the "thoughtful design" of parts of the game she said the overall delivery was "unpolished".

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2024

Pop hooks — perhaps from a trombone or an accordion — support raw, seemingly unpolished voices, even as the band arrangements demand real-time virtuosity.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

As everywhere else in the world, the archaeological record in East Asia for most of human history reveals only the debris of hunter-gatherers using unpolished stone tools and lacking pottery.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond