unplaced
Britishadjective
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not given or put in a particular place
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horse racing not in the first three (sometimes four) runners in a race
Example Sentences
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But those few unplaced plants won’t do it; the scene has grown too unfocused.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2021
The horse would likely be unplaced, as if he never ran the race.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2021
Only chromosome sequences of zebrafish were aligned while unplaced scaffolds were excluded.
From Nature • Dec. 13, 2016
Following a couple of unplaced efforts at two turns, the gray three-year-old son returned to shorter distances with a smashing seven-length win in the Grade 3 Jersey Shore Stakes on July 3 at Monmouth Park.
From Newsweek • Oct. 7, 2011
Pan is enjoying the music of the two long pipes he blows-playing one of the unplaced wild lilts of nature, we may be sure.
From The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition by Perry, Stella George Stern
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