unconditioned
adjective
un·con·di·tioned
ˌən-kən-ˈdi-shənd 
1
: not subject to conditions or limitations
2
a
: not dependent on or subjected to conditioning or learning : natural
unconditioned responses
b
: producing an unconditioned response
unconditioned stimuli
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In Washington, senators have been grilling Trump’s Cabinet nominees during confirmation hearings about California aid and gotten little resistance to their pleas for unconditioned help.
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David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 27 Jan. 2025
This is especially common if the pipes are located in an unconditioned area of the home, such as a crawlspace or unfinished basement.
—Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Aug. 2024
This is Cusk’s negative theology of the self, a desire to imagine lives perfectly unconditioned and undetermined, no longer shaped by history, culture, or even psychological continuity—and therefore free from loss, and from loss’s twin, progress.
—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
Tawni Eckley, a fourth-grade teacher in Loveland, Colorado, returned to her unconditioned classroom in a brick school building this week and a thermostat that on Thursday read 84 degrees.
—Daniella Silva, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2023
Its rough launch of an unconditioned and undertested Bing chatbot (based on a version of GPT-4) in February spurred deeply emotional reactions from its users.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 25 May 2023
An unconditioned model might tell you how to build a bomb, that one race should extinguish another, or try to convince you to jump off a cliff.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023
The unconditioned stimulus was an alternating current.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2016
Sanders' resolution is in line with broader calls within the party to reexamine the U.S.'s longstanding, unconditioned military and economic aid to Israel.
—Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 20 May 2021
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David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 27 Jan. 2025
This is especially common if the pipes are located in an unconditioned area of the home, such as a crawlspace or unfinished basement.
—Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Aug. 2024
This is Cusk’s negative theology of the self, a desire to imagine lives perfectly unconditioned and undetermined, no longer shaped by history, culture, or even psychological continuity—and therefore free from loss, and from loss’s twin, progress.
—Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
Tawni Eckley, a fourth-grade teacher in Loveland, Colorado, returned to her unconditioned classroom in a brick school building this week and a thermostat that on Thursday read 84 degrees.
—Daniella Silva, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2023
Its rough launch of an unconditioned and undertested Bing chatbot (based on a version of GPT-4) in February spurred deeply emotional reactions from its users.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 25 May 2023
An unconditioned model might tell you how to build a bomb, that one race should extinguish another, or try to convince you to jump off a cliff.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023
The unconditioned stimulus was an alternating current.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2016
Sanders' resolution is in line with broader calls within the party to reexamine the U.S.'s longstanding, unconditioned military and economic aid to Israel.
—Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 20 May 2021
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unconditioned
adjective
un·con·di·tioned
-ˈdish-ənd
1
: not dependent on or subjected to conditioning or learning
unconditioned responses
2
: producing an unconditioned response
unconditioned stimuli
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