commenced
adjective
started or begun.
uncommenced
-
a word derived from
commenced.
Example Sentences
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Across the companies the Journal analyzed, promises of payments under these uncommenced leases totaled $1.2 trillion in off-balance–sheet obligations, or about four times more than what was disclosed a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
There are—thank heaven!—many such stories still untold; there are, one would be inclined to hope, many such still uncommenced.
From From One Generation to Another by Henry Seton Merriman
The will directed “that so long as the house remained uncommenced the money should be invested and allowed to accumulate at compound interest.”
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie
I hope, people only know the measures already accomplished by thee and those that have been partially accomplished and are awaiting completion, but not those that are only in contemplation and uncommenced?
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Fosset, the maid, found her there at a quarter past ten o'clock—the ceremony was to take place at eleven—and gave a cry of horror at seeing the toilet uncommenced.
From The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
