Etymology
Origin of unhandled
Example Sentences
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I click OK and receive another error message that states: “Unhandled Exception: Log file path must be defined before calling the write log method.”
From Seattle Times
In the meantime, the judiciary has accumulated a backlog of more than three million unhandled complaints, a burden that judges expect to grow with government budget cuts.
From New York Times
Like the other objects evoked, the toys have solidity, but, by emphasising their unhandled coldness, the poet flips them into mystery.
From The Guardian
Thought is unseen, unhandled and untouched, and no despot has yet been able to reach it, except when the thoughts burst into words.
From Project Gutenberg
They were no longer raw men, "unmade, unhandled, unmeet," but seasoned and tempered veterans, and her young heart thrilled with pride as she drank in the morning air, and gazed with fascination at the vivid colors of the forests and the weird picturesqueness of the thatched hamlets by the way.
From Project Gutenberg
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