unplumbed
adjective
un·plumbed
ˌən-ˈpləmd 
1
: not tested with a plumb line
2
a
: not measured with a plumb
b
: not thoroughly explored
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Most unplumbed households in Phoenix are renters, Meehan said, one of the report’s most surprising findings.
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Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2020
Fohr explores every nuance in her voice, soaring and diving to unplumbed depths against a backdrop of her core band and an orchestra.
—Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
Existing technologies like magnetometry, which measures magnetic fields from the surface down to a certain (pretty shallow) depth, do a great job with some cases, but leave the depths unplumbed.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2020
Table Mountain, the crag that lords over Cape Town, has unusual aquifers whose depth and abundance of water are still unplumbed.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 12 June 2018
Trump, his allies, and his kin are guilty of degrading the language of government and politics to a hitherto unplumbed low.
—Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 5 June 2018
In territory that is, as yet, largely unplumbed by modern scholarship.
—Laura Bullard, Marie Claire, 1 Mar. 2018
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Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2020
Fohr explores every nuance in her voice, soaring and diving to unplumbed depths against a backdrop of her core band and an orchestra.
—Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
Existing technologies like magnetometry, which measures magnetic fields from the surface down to a certain (pretty shallow) depth, do a great job with some cases, but leave the depths unplumbed.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2020
Table Mountain, the crag that lords over Cape Town, has unusual aquifers whose depth and abundance of water are still unplumbed.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 12 June 2018
Trump, his allies, and his kin are guilty of degrading the language of government and politics to a hitherto unplumbed low.
—Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 5 June 2018
In territory that is, as yet, largely unplumbed by modern scholarship.
—Laura Bullard, Marie Claire, 1 Mar. 2018
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unplumbed
adjective
un·plumbed
ˌən-ˈpləmd
ˈən-
1
: not tested or measured with a plumb line
2
: not explored completely
many unplumbed areas in science
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