Example Sentences

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It is a piece of historical irony that Copley’s portrait lay unregarded for more than a century in the attic of one of Revere’s descendants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

“And there are variants that are likely to be popping up in other places which are spreading locally and which would be completely unregarded because there’s no sequencing in place.”

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2020

It's these often unregarded devices that are a big security issue, said Greg Day, European security chief at Palo Alto Networks.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2016

Start with an eager but thwarted youngster, toiling away in the sands of an unregarded planet?

From The New Yorker • Dec. 18, 2015

If the theory of gravitation had appeared ten centuries ago, it would have passed unregarded away, for then, nobody thought the outer world worth scrutiny.

From Pastor Pastorum by Latham, Rev. Henry