1
: not subjected to tapping
an untapped keg
2
: not drawn upon or utilized
as yet untapped markets
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Most of Venezuela's untapped oil is located in what is known as the Orinoco Belt, a roughly 21,000-square-mile area that stretches across the country's northeastern region.
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Alain Sherter, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
In a way, then, a documentary like Angus Wall’s Being Eddie, a generally amiable and adulatory 90 minutes streaming on Netflix, fails; with its softly hagiographic approach, the director never pushes Eddie Murphy to any place that feels untapped or confrontational, and therefore newsworthy.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 Dec. 2025
Meanwhile experts told Reuters that Doumbouya’s new term could further entrench corruption in the country, which holds the world’s largest reserves of bauxite and the richest untapped iron ore deposit.
—semafor.com, 29 Dec. 2025
Economically, a less icy Arctic spells opportunity—new shipping routes and untapped fossil-fuel reserves.
—Brett Simpson, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2025
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Alain Sherter, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
In a way, then, a documentary like Angus Wall’s Being Eddie, a generally amiable and adulatory 90 minutes streaming on Netflix, fails; with its softly hagiographic approach, the director never pushes Eddie Murphy to any place that feels untapped or confrontational, and therefore newsworthy.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 Dec. 2025
Meanwhile experts told Reuters that Doumbouya’s new term could further entrench corruption in the country, which holds the world’s largest reserves of bauxite and the richest untapped iron ore deposit.
—semafor.com, 29 Dec. 2025
Economically, a less icy Arctic spells opportunity—new shipping routes and untapped fossil-fuel reserves.
—Brett Simpson, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2025
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“Untapped.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/untapped. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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untapped
adjective
un·tapped
ˌən-ˈtapt 
1
: not tapped
an untapped keg
2
: not drawn upon or used
as yet untapped markets
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