unpunctuated
adjective
un·punc·tu·at·ed
ˌən-ˈpəŋk-chə-ˌwā-təd 
: lacking punctuation : not punctuated
an unpunctuated sentence
unpunctuated lines of text
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So while most congressional hearings on sharply partisan matters give viewers a split-screen narrative of the matter at hand, Thompson, Cheney and their fellow panel members were free to weave a seamless narrative, unpunctuated — for at least the duration of the hearing — by hostile voices.
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Mike Debonis, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
Notice how the reader is drawn in with a single unpunctuated sentence that starts slowly and gradually becomes an express train that whistles right by the local stops without providing an opportunity to get off.
—The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
Among the novel’s innovations was that final chapter: its intimacy with a female character’s most private thoughts, feelings, and fantasies, much of which is famously rendered in one amazingly long unpunctuated sentence.
—Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
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Mike Debonis, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
Notice how the reader is drawn in with a single unpunctuated sentence that starts slowly and gradually becomes an express train that whistles right by the local stops without providing an opportunity to get off.
—The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
Among the novel’s innovations was that final chapter: its intimacy with a female character’s most private thoughts, feelings, and fantasies, much of which is famously rendered in one amazingly long unpunctuated sentence.
—Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
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“Unpunctuated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unpunctuated. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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