Example Sentences

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Chennapragada has taken to calling the extra, unimposed responsibility a “second shift” she faces as a manager.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

At Hopkins, we have reduced by 75 percent the number of patient safety indicator incidents that we report, saving millions in unimposed penalties and improving our public profile.

From US News • Oct. 19, 2016

They got their little tasks as if they loved them, and indulged, from the mere exuberance of the gift, in the most unimposed little miracles of memory.

From The Turn of the Screw by James, Henry

At first, it seems exceedingly strange that so important a responsibility should be unimposed, unacknowledged, and denied; but the explanation is this.

From Lombard Street : a description of the money market by Bagehot, Walter