unheeded
adjective
un·heed·ed
ˌən-ˈhē-dəd 
: not attended or listened to : not heeded
unheeded warnings
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Swalwell’s exit left no clear Democratic frontrunner — and efforts by party leaders to winnow the field went unheeded.
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Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
But Hilton’s plea went unheeded.
—Linh Tat, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
Similarly, a parent’s directive that doctors withhold antibiotics from a child who arrived at the ER with a rapidly lethal infection like bacterial meningitis would be rightly unheeded.
—Adam W. Gaffney, STAT, 18 May 2026
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Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
But Hilton’s plea went unheeded.
—Linh Tat, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
Similarly, a parent’s directive that doctors withhold antibiotics from a child who arrived at the ER with a rapidly lethal infection like bacterial meningitis would be rightly unheeded.
—Adam W. Gaffney, STAT, 18 May 2026
Advertisement While Pulisic is no recluse—he’ll go to an occasional nice dinner with friends—exhortations to step out more go mostly unheeded.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 7 May 2026
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“Unheeded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unheeded. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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