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I recalled lost relatives, uncherished in their time and therefore a source of belated, worthless grief, and first loves, unrequited and now sweetly recollected.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2016

For fifteen years, over what is, in fact, two generations in tennis, Williams has been a spectacular and constant and yet oddly uncherished national treasure.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2014

As she merged into womanhood, unpro- tected, uncherished, uncared for, there fell on her ear the music of love, awakening an intensity of emotion long dormant.

From Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North Showing that slavery's shadows fall even there by Wilson, Harriet E.

Surely the representation of an uncherished filling is not more odious than mankind.

From Geography and Plays by Stein, Gertrude

On some I look myself with dread, whilst others from me fly, But sadder still the uncherished soul when Fate's dark hour draws nigh; Oh! where my aching heart relieve when griefs assail me sore?

From The Bakchesarian Fountain and Other Poems by Derzhavin, Gavrila Romanovich