unpunished

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Recent Examples of unpunished Allowing former regime figures to go unpunished—except for some of the worst offenders in Ben Ali’s inner circle—also created unanticipated difficulties. Sarah Feuer, Foreign Affairs, 6 July 2017 No good deed goes unpunished, though, and the more notoriety Olive receives, the more her classmates are determined to take her down. Madeline Cisneros, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2024 Janet Montgomery will also recur in the role of Hillary, a thoughtful woman who does not want to see injustice go unpunished. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2024 Montgomery will play Hillary, a thoughtful woman who does not want to see injustice go unpunished. 1923 follows a new generation of Duttons led by patriarch Jacob (Harrison Ford) and matriarch Cara (Helen Mirren). Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 26 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for unpunished 
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Adjective
  • The ugly last-minute loss hurts the team in the standings, and the undisciplined ending is damaging the team's reputation.
    Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The problem is that Ronan is also forging her compelling warts-and-all portrait of obliteration and recovery in another type of gale storm, that of undisciplined filmmaking at odds with the patient harvesting of characterization.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • In another rural health example, a different insurer learned that uncontrolled diabetes cost them $248,000 per member per year.
    Emotivo Health, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • And just as nuclear blasts produce a distinctive mushroom cloud, uncontrolled wildfires can be powerful enough to generate their own weather.
    Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Trump’s parents shipped their incorrigible second son off to military school 90 minutes outside New York City just after his 13th birthday.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
  • Maher’s always incorrigible political comedy takes the leftist approach to everything, using Democrats’ favorite tactic: insult and defamation.
    Armond White, National Review, 7 June 2024
Adjective
  • The Founding generation also worried that older men were more inflexible, obstinate, uninterested in change, and stuck in their ways—all leadership qualities at odds with the experimentation needed for representative government.
    Rebecca Brannon / Made by History, TIME, 3 July 2024
  • Republicans will be obstinate in refusing to pass any bill that might bolster Democrats’ electoral prospects in November.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
Adjective
  • McCaffrey hadn’t played since the Super Bowl in Las Vegas while battling a stubborn case of Achilles tendinitis.
    Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • You might be tempted to whip out your strongest acne-fighting products to destroy your stubborn zit.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 1 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Furthermore, the practice is tightly bound to the seemingly intransigent social marginalization of women.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Airbnb soon had agreements with more than a hundred cities, and when local politicians proved intransigent—leaders in Austin, for instance, seemed immune to Airbnb’s overtures—the company simply went over their heads.
    Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The melodic lines, particularly for brass, are very difficult to navigate.
    Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • High frequencies are more difficult to block out than other tones, as high-end noise-cancelling headphones from Apple, Bose, and Sony perform similarly.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Up the long hill and around a bend that almost touches itself White Chimneys comes into view, as harsh and obdurate as ever.
    Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
  • Over the next several hundred million years, terrestrial plants of all kinds profoundly altered the planet, accelerating the water cycle, turning obdurate crust into supple soil—and pushing the level of atmospheric oxygen to new heights.
    Ferris Jabr, The Atlantic, 25 June 2024

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“Unpunished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpunished. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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