How to Use unmodified in a Sentence

unmodified

adjective
  • Yet 50 years later the HAMD17, unmodified, is still the standard scale.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2011
  • The amount of the virus inside unmodified monkey cells also dropped by 85 percent when using the same stand-in virus.
    Abdullah Iqbal, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Over six years, Schmidt found that infections in these rooms dropped 58% compared to eight unmodified ICU rooms.
    Andrew Zaleski, STAT, 24 Sep. 2020
  • New York State has an assault-weapon ban that prevents unmodified versions of the AR-15 from being sold.
    Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The cages only increase the burden on crews and maintainers that the aging T-62s impose even in a clean, unmodified state.
    David Axe, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • One trigger pull in an unmodified rifle fires off one round.
    J.p. Lawrence, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Tenenbaum’s voice is clean and uncompressed, unmodified and pure in tone.
    Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2021
  • For my part, both of our household vehicles are lamentably, and lamely, unmodified.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The students first built the unmodified power-wheeled cars, followed by changes to the electrical, steering, and power systems.
    Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 1 May 2018
  • But when fed very little, the male carriers grew up to be smaller than their unmodified counterparts.
    James Dinneen, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The original military version of the AR-15 can fire eight hundred rounds per minute; an unmodified civilian AR-15 might fire forty-five to sixty.
    Phil Klay, The New Yorker, 11 June 2022
  • Now, one hacker has gotten the game to run on an unmodified PlayStation 5 by using a second, jailbroken PS5 as a go-between.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Plants with the best combination of genes flowered about a week earlier, grew taller and were about 40 percent larger than unmodified plants.
    Amanda Cavanagh, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2019
  • In previous attempts with unmodified pig livers, swelling would occur and blood flow would stop within a matter of hours.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The thousand-mile race through the countryside aimed for Rome and back on open roads run by unmodified production cars, most of which—including their drivers—bore Italian names.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 21 July 2022
  • Both modified and unmodified thinset can also even out any small imperfections in the substrate before the tile goes down and is ready to be grouted.
    Sarah Baird, House Beautiful, 14 Sep. 2020
  • That book presaged and helped spur the effort to stop the practice of patenting unmodified genes, culminating in the Supreme Court invalidating such patents which were, at the time, abundant.
    Stewart Southey, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The researchers set up a taste test for unmodified Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies and for seven strains that had been genetically altered to each lack a different opsin.
    Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Bugatti has never said how fast an unmodified car could go without the electronic limiter.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 2 Sep. 2019
  • The fear of GMOs is like creationism: an unfounded belief based not on facts, but on a form of faith: genetically unmodified food is better.
    Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2015
  • Dubbed the villa of a hundred chimneys, the period property is one of the few built by the Medici to have survived relatively unmodified since the 16th century.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 28 May 2022
  • The scientists then mixed the results with unmodified human embryonic stem cells, and the three types of cells coalesced to produce embryo-like clusters.
    Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 17 June 2023
  • All of this was rendered on original unmodified N64 hardware (with the exception of a physical RGB-output mod).
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 5 July 2022
  • But Guido argued that a hacker with control over a user's device can forge any message that an unmodified Voatz app would generate.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2020
  • But the frame remained unmodified thanks to particularly good stiffness already (due partly to the battery pack).
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Crop scientists are researching the effects dicamba can have on unmodified soybean plants, such as reducing the number of beans produced per plant.
    Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 11 July 2017
  • But that does not eliminate the possibility that an unmodified virus collected by scientists in the field and brought into a lab could have moved into humans.
    Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
  • With gene engineering available to only the wealthy, society will break down into two social classes, the modified and the unmodified.
    Interview By Dan Amira, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Even unmodified, drones can be made harder to tackle with the application of a little imagination.
    The Economist, 14 June 2019
  • Despite bagging's controversial reputation among many players, the strategy isn't really comparable to outright cheating—baggers play an unmodified version of the game as it was designed, after all.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2023

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