How to Use unexamined in a Sentence

unexamined

adjective
Definition of unexaminednext
  • And yet, as in the case of so many of its peers, the show’s methods have been left largely unexamined.
    — Hugh Eakin, Harper's magazine, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Since this is an Apple ad, no frame of this can go unexamined.
    — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The focus of the current policy debate has been on the means; the end is left unexamined.
    — Yangyang Cheng, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
  • But if the British hadn’t started the fire, who had? For nearly 250 years, the mystery of how the fire started has gone unsolved—and, for the most part, unexamined.
    — Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
  • Quent’s love is rather like what a child might feel for his mother; his wife is an unexamined ground of being.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • Nothing will change as long as each of us clings to our own unexamined beliefs.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 14 Jan. 2024
  • It was stored unexamined in the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo until the new study.
    — Charlene Gubash, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • And so, too, is the unexamined business not worth building.
    — Yec, Forbes, 3 June 2021
  • Yet the present state of AI has deep and mostly unexamined implications for the future of meganets.
    — WIRED, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Was that work evil, immoral or simply the sort of unexamined conduct that could pass for reputable science at the time?
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • This is a pity, as Persian statesmen and the clerical rulers have not lived unexamined lives.
    — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Hundreds of graves had been cut into the sandy soil of a pine forest, isolated and unexamined.
    — Marc Santora Nicole Tung, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
  • This disclosure entry was unexamined until now, when NBC News dug in to find the source of revenue.
    — Glenn Fleishman, Fortune, 2 July 2018
  • What starts as an odd story about a speaking bust becomes a portrait of unexamined lives.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is not always worth reading.
    — Carlos Lozada, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Nor is the world rid of the unexamined prejudice Archie personified — far from it.
    — David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2021
  • No one dared disturb those sites in a country where Franco’s legacy has long been left unexamined.
    — Constant Méheut Samuel Aranda, New York Times, 18 July 2023
  • The baseball-loving world may have been expecting this from Berríos, but that doesn’t mean his ascent should go unexamined.
    — Michael Beller, SI.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The losses are less clear because a parenting fail is only a fail if left unexamined.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The same could be said of bears, foxes, crows, turtles, even ants — a whole menagerie as yet unexamined, affecting not only plants but even fungi.
    — Brandon Keim Tristan Spinski, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The hosts — all men, mostly white — put on suits and ties and did their best Johnny Carson, and the format went virtually unexamined and unchanged for years.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The cost of unexamined rape evidence has become more apparent over the years as states process tens of thousands untested kits.
    — Catherine Rentz, ProPublica, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Williams says Black nuns are an important sect of Black feminism that has gone unexamined.
    — Veronica Wells, Essence, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The Argentines try to leave nothing unexamined, nothing to chance, so the family is left without doubts — even if there is nothing to bury.
    — Maria Verza, Fox News, 4 June 2018
  • The Argentines try to leave nothing unexamined, nothing to chance, so the family is left without doubts – even if there is nothing to bury.
    — Maria Verza, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2018
  • The unexamined among us allow these ancient self-perceptions to run the show in current time, but not Nxians.
    — Vanessa Grigoriadis, New York Times, 30 May 2018
  • The city needs a district attorney committed to pushing back against the unexamined practices and excesses of the past.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
  • There is no lesson beyond the fact that life goes on in prison — and that, for all its surprises, is a slice of American life that often goes unexamined and unexpressed.
    — New York Times, 27 July 2022
  • The core of the film, though, is Joe's slow realization that his entire, unexamined life is the product of Gracie's predatory behavior.
    — David Faris, theweek, 13 Feb. 2024
  • For most of this time, the effect of ideas on international relations went unexamined.
    — Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'unexamined.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: