How to Use unexposed in a Sentence

unexposed

adjective
  • The graph below shows the change in log earnings for exposed and unexposed cohorts depending on year of birth.
    Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2011
  • By two-days old, chicks from clutches that had heard the alarm call recordings while still in the egg were better equipped to respond to predators than chicks from the unexposed clutches.
    Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2019
  • The 27 members of the control group were entirely unexposed.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Which brings us to some literal junk which remains remarkably unexposed in a world of naked swimmers.
    James Berman, Forbes, 26 June 2022
  • But if the leaker goes unexposed and unpunished, what deterrent will there be against future leaks?
    Alan M. Dershowitz, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Rolling Rs is at the heart of learning Spanish and one of its most challenging trills, especially for those unexposed to the language regularly as a young child.
    Fernando Alfonso Iii, CNN, 17 Oct. 2021
  • In two of the kids, there were fewer and less diverse unexposed cells, too, potentially leaving them with less of an ability to fight new infections.
    Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Prices for film packs had ballooned on the resale market, leading Fuerst and her spouse Adam, both Polaroid enthusiasts, to scour thrift stores for cameras with a pack of film, or even a few shots, left unexposed inside.
    PCMAG, 9 Mar. 2022
  • At least five recent studies from around the world found that a significant number of unexposed, healthy people already had T cells that recognized and reacted to the virus.
    Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
  • For example, mice who received a weak electrical shock to their foot reacted, whereas unexposed mice didn’t even acknowledge they had been shocked.
    Sarah Allen, Science | AAAS, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Like other researchers, Buggert’s team saw cross-reactive T cells in unexposed people.
    Gregory Barber, Wired, 10 July 2020
  • Grandfathers have thus been put on notice to stay unexposed—even as summer temperatures climb higher and higher.
    Natasha Frost, Quartzy, 6 July 2019
  • Changing weather patterns altered the range of insects that carried pathogens, bringing new and deadly ailments to the previously unexposed.
    Dagomar Degroot, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Further experiments showed that these rays could travel across the room, penetrate wood and thin pieces of metal, and would create an image on unexposed photographic film.
    Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2014
  • Even as the people were allowed more free movement, the infection of a largely unexposed populace has led to business closures as people are staying home either out of illness or prudence.
    Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Experts say that process, in which Weinstein's defense team will attempt to find jurors both unfamiliar with his case and unexposed to the numerous stories about his alleged behavior, will not be easy.
    CBS News, 6 Jan. 2020
  • This will open up the opportunity for refining companies unexposed to the region to benefit from wider profit margins.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Many died of European diseases, which ravaged unexposed New World populations.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 17 July 2018
  • The only problem was that testing a prophylaxis would require them to introduce the diseases to previously unexposed human subjects.
    Sushma Subramanian, Slate Magazine, 26 Feb. 2017
  • Another reason is the extraordinary effort, detailed in the Politico news website, to keep Joe Biden, the oldest nominee ever to be a major-party candidate, isolated and unexposed to risk.
    WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Animal studies have heightened anxiety that radiation exposures mess with germ cells: Mice zapped with radiation, for example, have more DNMs than unexposed mice.
    Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Even unexposed ants started interacting differently, keeping a higher proportion of their contacts to smaller circles of nestmates.
    Michael Schulson, Wired, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Similarly, the babies' unexposed siblings were not affected.
    Tasnim Ahmed, CNN, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Per Scientific American’s Jennifer Leman, these eggs began vibrating and continued to do so upon reuniting with their siblings, ensuring that unexposed clutchmates whose sense of hearing had yet to develop also received the alarm.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 23 July 2019
  • Male honeybees exposed to neonicotinoid insecticides produced fewer living sperm cells than unexposed males.
    National Geographic, 26 July 2016
  • Male honeybees exposed to neonicotinoid insecticides produced fewer living sperm cells than unexposed males.
    Lindsey Konkel, National Geographic, 26 July 2016
  • For every photo, every lawsuit, every whistleblower who makes some of America’s remaining bigotry plain, there are likely many inhumanities that remain disbelieved or unexposed.
    Janell Ross, Time, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Perhaps steppe peoples acquired plague, developed some immunity with exposure, and transmitted it to unexposed European farmers, thereby decimating them.
    Jared Diamond, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The extraordinarily deadly second wave of influenza in autumn 1918 diffused linearly along rail and sea routes, then radiated outward to wreak havoc on previously unexposed populations globally.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2020
  • A psychology professor at the University of Riverside, California discovered that the behavior and learning problems associated with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders affected the offspring of the mother, plus the next two unexposed generations.
    Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 9 July 2017

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