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unexamined

American  
[uhn-ig-zam-ind] / ˌʌn ɪgˈzæm ɪnd /

adjective

  1. not having been examined; not inspected, explored, questioned, or thoroughly considered.


Example Sentences

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We’re there now, and that feels deeply unexamined, even though we are in the world that that created now, and it’s not a good one.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026

What Ray perceives as unexamined thinking and entrenched prejudice is, along with a clear warning about climate change, very present in “Burn the Water.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

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

It added that it would not reopen the investigation unless a wealth of new, unexamined, and admissible evidence was introduced.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

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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