hedge
noun
a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow.
unhedged
-
a word derived from
hedge.
Example Sentences
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The airline warned that its results for the year will be "highly sensitive" to external factors such as conflict escalation in the Middle East and Ukraine as well as the price of unhedged jet fuel.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
He neatly encapsulated his theory as such: “The Mag7 is the largest unhedged molecule short ever underwritten by the equity market.”
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
In other words, you might not make as much as the unhedged S&P on a good day, but you lose a lot less on its worst days.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
Lufthansa will further cut capacity by five aircraft in the 2026-27 winter season to reduce unhedged fuel purchases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Any adversary who is unscrupulous enough to give the least charitable reading to an unhedged statement will find an opening to attack the writer in a thicket of hedged ones anyway.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
