preserved
adjective
(of food or any perishable substance) prepared by canning, pickling, salting, or the like, or treated by some process to prevent decomposition or fermentation.
unpreserved
-
a word derived from
preserved.
Example Sentences
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This is the first study to directly compare preserved and unpreserved urine samples using a rapid direct-from-urine testing method.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 31, 2026
The process of self-mummification is such that there is no way of knowing how many monks attempted it and failed, their unpreserved bodies left to decay and disappear.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 19, 2024
It contains the largest uncut block of unpreserved virgin redwoods.
From Time Magazine Archive
“But we don’t keep anything of the kind in London, my dear sir; the tiles and leads are the unpreserved grounds of the sparrows.”
From Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season by George Manville Fenn
Leaving philosophy for the moment, I must renew my sketchy pictures of the scenes I pass through, lest treacherous memory should relinquish their best traits unpreserved.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
