unexplored
adjective
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Definition of unexplored
: not explored: such as
a : not penetrated or ranged over for purposes of geographical discovery an area of unexplored wilderness
b : not looked into or investigated unexplored options unexplored areas of study
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But no probe has dug more than a few inches into the planet’s rusty soil, leaving Mars’ entire inner landscape unexplored. — NBC News, "7 ways NASA's InSight mission will go where no Mars explorer has before," 4 May 2018 Once on the ground, guests often pursue specific interests such as photography or birding, or they may simply be lured in by the promise of a destination largely unexplored, Ms. Sparks said. — Rachel Nuwer, New York Times, "In Chad, the Elephants (So Many Elephants) Are Back," 14 May 2018 What seems to have gone missing was any realization that there's an entire continent south of Mexico that is virtually unexplored — and unexploited — by U.S. film interests/fans/funders. — John Anderson, latimes.com, "Latin American cinema offers untapped riches just south of the North American border," 11 May 2018 The proposal, scheduled for a vote Monday, calls for placing 16,000 square miles of sensitive or unexplored ocean floor off limits to trawling, a fishing technique that involves dragging a large net along the sea floor to catch target fish. — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, "New fishery rules could protect deep sea corals in California," 7 Apr. 2018 Those are necessary for scientific or search-and-rescue purposes, but also just to find their way through unexplored and possibly changing environments. — Matthew Francis, Ars Technica, "“Life, uh, finds a way”—Applying lessons from evolution to go to Mars," 26 Jan. 2018 Few are aware that 95 percent of the ocean is unexplored, that thousands of rivers remain unknown to science, and that research is uncovering new species constantly. — National Geographic, "Why We Created This First-of-Its-Kind Digital Field Journal," 17 Apr. 2018 Moreover, excavations at Herculaneum in the 1990s revealed two unexplored layers of the villa, which some scholars believe may contain hundreds or even thousands more scrolls. — Henrik Knudsen, Smithsonian, "Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia," 26 June 2018 Morocco’s bid was singled out for ‘‘unexplored risks’’ in evaluations of those strategies that were produced by the BSR organization for FIFA. — Graham Dunbar And Rob Harris, BostonGlobe.com, "Will North America get the 2026 World Cup? We’ll soon find out," 13 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unexplored.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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