unchecked
/ (ʌnˈtʃɛkt) /
not prevented from continuing or growing: unchecked population growth
not examined or inspected
without being stopped or hindered: the virus could spread unchecked
without being examined or inspected: our luggage passed unchecked through customs
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How to use unchecked in a sentence
Vidigal and the other slums of Brazil—known as favelas—are testaments to years of government neglect and unchecked urbanism.
Gove has accepted that his department must face questions over the way these teachings were allegedly allowed to grow unchecked.
Inspectors Uncover UK Schools Pushing Radical Islamic Agendas | Nico Hines | June 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCity and state veterans commissions allowed conditions at the Phoenix VA to go unchecked.
The VA Crisis Can’t Be Solved by Washington, D.C. Alone. Local Authorities Need to Step Up. | Kristen Rouse | June 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLopez may prove to be most similar to Alexis of the three, someone whose escalating mental health issues went unchecked.
Let’s Put Things in Perspective: You’re Still Safer on a Military Base | Robert Beckhusen | April 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne suggested explanation, has been the surge of unchecked disinformation available online.
Sir David Attenborough: Enough With the Creationists and Climate Change Deniers! | Nico Hines | February 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Its sonorous and regular peal proceeded, however, unchecked, and the clerical clangor was renewed with redoubled fury.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueCommercial dealings took the most questionable forms: adulteration of products went on unchecked by any qualms of honesty.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds | Francis Aiden HibbertRemedies for these are frequently not discovered, and the epidemic is allowed to run its course unchecked.
Domestic Animals | Richard L. AllenVirtually unchecked, the mob sacked chapels and houses, plundered shops, and burnt Savile's furniture before his door.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William HuntThey had reached the pass at last, and the unchecked sunlight was streaming down with a blinding glare.
Villa Rubein and Other Stories | John Galsworthy
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