Example Sentences

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Instead, they’ve left the money — $200 to $1,050, depending on their income level and tax-filing status — sitting on unactivated prepaid debit cards, where it doesn’t even earn interest.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2024

Microsoft has used similar warnings for unactivated versions of Windows in the past, and restricts features like dark mode, personalization settings, and themes from being modified until a system is activated.

From The Verge • Feb. 22, 2022

It's a fatty food, but as I looked at it my "appetite and reward" brain regions remained strangely unactivated.

From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2012

Note the unactivated, pie-shaped area used to deliver a shock.

From Scientific American • May 12, 2012

Crace's tempter, then, is not a flapping, sulfurous devil, only a man whose demons and unactivated angels are part of his nature.

From Time Magazine Archive