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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.


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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

Critics say those ideas still show up in modern advertising and influencer culture, often unexamined.

From Salon Jul. 27, 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

I was a young queer feminist but still full of unexamined ideas.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 8, 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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