unexamined
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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As my colleagues and I argue in a friend-of-the-court brief for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the justices shouldn’t let the religious-liberty consequences of this case go unexamined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
Baldwin’s attorneys accused the state of misconduct, pointing to a batch of unexamined bullets that a potential witness turned over to sheriff’s investigators in March 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2025
But there is this unexamined and uninterrogated idea that some received procedure is the only thing that we have to evaluate what’s happening against now.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2025
A moral intuition is a value that is not fully conscious and is the unexamined foundation of many seemingly distinct issues, such as immigration, gender and sexual beliefs and the need to censor.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2024
While the mass of men went on leading thoroughly unexamined lives of monstrous consumption, Augustus Waters examined the collection of the Rijksmuseum from afar.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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