unreached
Americanadjective
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not reached; inaccessible, out of reach.
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Christianity. not yet exposed or converted to Christianity; not reached by Christian missionary activity.
Example Sentences
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Don’t think they haven’t heard the criticism — about the team’s unreliable health, about its unreached championship ambitions — and even noted that in many cases it has been fair.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2023
Other lighting choices come down to industries and individual people, many of whom remain unreached or unmoved by the issue.
From Scientific American • Oct. 1, 2022
Instead, he had 58 to finish with 967, saying he realized on the final couple series his goal was likely to go unreached.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2022
These are the teachers who push students to be better when they see unreached potential, but who also offer care and comfort when it is needed most.
From Washington Times • May 6, 2020
The ordinary limit of human life unreached; his intellectual strength unabated; his loftiest aspirations unrealized; at the critical moment of his country's sorest need—he passed to the grave.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
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