unpredicated
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a word derived from
predicate.
predicatenoun(in many languages, such as English) one of the two main parts of a sentence, containing the verb and any of its objects, modifiers, or other completions, and generally expressing an action, state, or condition: for example, got here quickly in Larry got here quickly, or ate a cookie in I ate a cookie, or slept in The exhausted student slept.
Example Sentences
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"Number two," he said, "someone needs to ask about this legal issue. If you can resist an unlawful arrest, can you resist an unpredicated investigation?"
From Fox News ● Jun. 26, 2019
The poem opens in a long, jittery, unpredicated setting of the mobile scene:
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2016
At first inarticulate, confused, they dripped strings of mere words; expletives, exclamations, detached phrases, broken clauses, sentences that started with subjects and trailed, unpredicated, to stupid silence; sentences beginning subjectless and hobbling to futile conclusion.
From Angel Island by Inez Haynes Gillmore