untapped
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Mondelez CEO Dirk Van de Put said there was plenty of untapped potential abroad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Last year, Tory Party leader Kemi Badenoch said it would be "absurd" for the UK to leave "vital resources untapped".
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Mrima Hill, a 390-acre forest on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, has long been at the centre of disputes over its untapped mineral wealth, with locals fearing eviction without compensation and exclusion from the benefits.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Ali said the arrival of AI tools like large language models could theoretically make some markets more efficient by helping analysts more easily uncover and recognize untapped value.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Accordingly, the number of possible individual human beings is vastly greater than the number that have ever lived: the untapped potential of the human species is immense.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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