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as in unproven
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as in untried
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Recent Examples of untested
But issuing preemptive pardons — for actual or imagined offenses by Trump’s critics that could be investigated or prosecuted by the incoming administration — would stretch the powers of the presidency in untested ways.
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Zeke Miller and Colleen Long, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
This suit used the same Iowa law to argue that the poll had deliberately misled The Register’s paying subscribers.
Suhr of the Center for American Rights described state consumer protection laws as a promising if largely untested vehicle for pursuing media outlets.
—New York Times, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2025
In contrast, raw water remains untested, unregulated and untreated, leaving its safety to drink in question.
—Bill Sullivan, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
But Biden has used the power in the broadest and most untested way possible: to pardon those who have not even been investigated yet.
—Colleen Long and Zeke Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2025
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Zeke Miller and Colleen Long, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
This suit used the same Iowa law to argue that the poll had deliberately misled The Register’s paying subscribers.
Suhr of the Center for American Rights described state consumer protection laws as a promising if largely untested vehicle for pursuing media outlets.
—New York Times, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2025
In contrast, raw water remains untested, unregulated and untreated, leaving its safety to drink in question.
—Bill Sullivan, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
But Biden has used the power in the broadest and most untested way possible: to pardon those who have not even been investigated yet.
—Colleen Long and Zeke Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for untested
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One of the hardest parts of launching a food brand is that retailers often don’t want to take risks on new, unproven products.—
Dave Knox,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Early in the pandemic, Janet Woodcock, then the head of the FDA’s drug center, reportedly sprang into action to prevent widespread distribution of the unproven COVID treatment hydroxychloroquine over the orders of top Trump officials.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2025
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Within days, he was appointed as the new, young, untried head coach (and now manager) of former club Arsenal with his work ethic, his ambitions and his non-negotiables.—
Amy Lawrence,
The Athletic,
3 Feb. 2025
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At the time, states that still practiced the death penalty struggled as their lethal drug suppliers, not wanting to be associated with executions, cut ties and corrections offices experimented with untried methods.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
26 Sep. 2024
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The federal government is, in effect, suddenly being run like an A.I. startup; Musk, an unelected billionaire, a maestro of flying cars and trips to Mars, has made the United States of America his grandest test case yet for an unproved and unregulated new technology.—
Kyle Chayka,
The New Yorker,
12 Feb. 2025
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And the exploitation of the total resource, including unproved but technically recoverable resources, is fairly low, less than 2% per year.—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes,
3 Dec. 2024
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But even if such a case could be made, would-be censors would have to show that their solution is worth other significant costs to the free flow of ideas and the silencing of important, good-faith ideas.—
Jacob Hale Russell,
TIME,
4 Mar. 2025
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The findings suggested extended periods of time spent in the captive environment of a shelter was encouraging dogs to behave in a manner considered unattractive to would-be adopters.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Proxima Kosmos launched Saturday featuring a sweeping interactive digital platform, films and a limited-run zine that expands the speculative universe through essays, art and storytelling.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Some commentators don’t like the idea of potentially using taxpayer funds to backstop the price of crypto, a speculative digital asset with limited (some would say nonexistent) underlying value.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN,
4 Mar. 2025
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While the German shepherd is politely holding back, his opponent can't wait to tuck in, to the point that his owner has to physically stop him from grabbing the unseasoned spaghetti before the contest even started.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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Other human foods that cats can eat unseasoned and without bones are salmon, chicken, turkey, beef, organ meat, shrimp, lamb, pork and canned tuna in spring water only.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
12 Dec. 2024
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The feds charge ‘El Jefe,’ the alleged boss of a vast human smuggling network behind a deadly crash.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2025
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Andrew Tate has criticized , after the Florida Governor said the alleged rapist and people trafficker was not welcome in Florida.—
Marni Rose McFall,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
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Wide receiver Deebo Samuel is the Washington Commanders' newest offensive weapon.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Mar. 2025
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Breaking through entails navigating a thicket of customer perceptions, expectations, and a general reluctance to try something new when the existing solution feels sufficient.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Untested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untested. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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