as in vulnerable
lacking protection from danger or resistance against attack
the cowardly soldiers fled, leaving the palace undefended
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Recent Examples of undefended
Public tolerance of inaccurate and undefended allegations, non sequiturs in response to hard questions and outright denials of facts are shockingly high.
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Kathleen Higgins, Scientific American, 5 Dec. 2016
As with the assault on Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attacks, the United States has been left essentially undefended.
—John J. Farmer, Foreign Affairs, 4 May 2020
Archival: Germany's air arm, better known as the Luftwaffe blazes the trail for the opening attacks on Holland, Belgium and tiny undefended Luxembourg.
—Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2023
Ecuador, on the Pacific coast between Colombia and Peru, the world’s two largest cocaine producers, and with much of its coastline undefended, has become a crucial transit country for drugs bound for the United States and Europe.
—Arturo Torres and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
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Kathleen Higgins, Scientific American, 5 Dec. 2016
As with the assault on Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attacks, the United States has been left essentially undefended.
—John J. Farmer, Foreign Affairs, 4 May 2020
Archival: Germany's air arm, better known as the Luftwaffe blazes the trail for the opening attacks on Holland, Belgium and tiny undefended Luxembourg.
—Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2023
Ecuador, on the Pacific coast between Colombia and Peru, the world’s two largest cocaine producers, and with much of its coastline undefended, has become a crucial transit country for drugs bound for the United States and Europe.
—Arturo Torres and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undefended
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Additionally, many rare species are understudied, or not even discovered, and might be especially vulnerable in ways that don't show up in this analysis.Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
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Officials have also warned the proprietary algorithm that fuels what users see on the app is vulnerable to manipulation by Chinese authorities, who can use it to shape content on the platform in a way that's difficult to detect.HALELUYA HADERO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 7 Dec. 2024
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Elizabeth Taylor felt helpless learning a close friend's fate along with the world.Angela Andaloro, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
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Zimbardo spent the rest of his career promoting his theory that humans are helpless against the evil that lies in wait within us to be triggered by circumstance.Judy Berman, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
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Kreskin acknowledged to radio personality Art Bell that his prediction was a hoax, a way of proving that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks the year before had made people susceptible to manipulation.Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024
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Indeed, teen drivers are especially susceptible to getting into crashes resulting from distracted driving.Ed Garsten, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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Temperatures are expected to drop well below freezing, threatening vegetation, crops and unprotected outdoor property.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Most human infections with H5 virus have occurred after unprotected exposure to sick or dead infected animals or their environment, state officials said.Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Undefended.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undefended. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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