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Recent Examples of untested President Trump's intent to declare a national energy emergency unlocks largely untested federal authorities to keep fossil fuel and nuclear power plants online. Daniel Moore, Axios, 20 Jan. 2025 The centerpiece of his new rules gives insurance companies the ability to use black-box algorithms to increase rates based on undisclosed and untested climate predictions. Carmen Balber, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025 Carbon-capture skeptics say the technology is untested at scale and allows the fossil-fuel industry to continue largely unchanged. Matthew Brown, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025 One study estimates that from 2014 to 2018, 300,000 to 400,000 kits remained untested in the United States. Sheila McClear, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for untested 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untested
Adjective
  • Throw in an unprotected first-round pick in 2031, and that’s a lot of draft capital for an unproven big man who hasn’t played much in the NBA.
    Zach Harper, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Bondi endorsed Trump in his 2016 presidential election, supported some of his unproven claims about Pennsylvania’s 2020 election, and served as Trump’s defense lawyer during his first impeachment trial.
    Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • During the 2020 wildfires in Oregon, for example, armed men hampered firefighting, fueled by unproved rumors that antifa had set the fires.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Shooting on location at the relevant Rijeka cites, scenes are staged and choreographed exactingly, using a vast archive of 10,000 photographs that the would-be leader had taken to document his would-be triumph.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Twenty years ago, Paradise Now — a comedy about would-be Palestinian suicide bombers — was backed by a Warner Bros. subsidiary.
    Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Idahoans United said details in the financial statement — including mention of the state’s $850 million annual Medicaid budget — are misleading and speculative.
    Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The precise modeling of potential gains and losses for such speculative investments is basically impossible.
    Vineer Bhansali, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • The alleged incident occurred while the two co-starred in the 2016 YouTube series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The alleged incident occurred on or about Feb. 1 within Scott County.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The dismissals come less than three weeks after a midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter killed 67 people and brought new scrutiny to air traffic controllers and their workloads.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The video discussion started with benchmarks, details about xAI's new data center and the desire to create a chatbot that didn't need to be politically correct.
    Ina Fried, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025

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“Untested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untested. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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