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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

Longtime Shannon collaborator Jeff Nichols serves as an executive producer and “Eric LaRue” echoes that filmmaker’s careful attention to unexamined pockets of American life, specifically, the uneasy tension between God and guns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025

In the spring of 2005, The New York Times published a series of articles on class in America, a dimension of the national experience that tends to go unexamined, if acknowledged at all.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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