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
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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