untended
adjective
un·tend·ed
ˌən-ˈten-dəd 
: not managed, minded, or watched over : not tended
a stove that was left untended
an untended garden
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Virgin Galactic has accomplished this sequence of six missions while its main competitor in the suborbital market—Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin—remains grounded after a New Shepard rocket failure nearly 14 months ago during a launch of untended research payloads.
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Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2023
Just down the street, thousands of chickens clucked in an untended poultry shed.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
As cheaper overseas imports put Hawaiian plantations out of business in the end of the 20th century, that land sat untended.
—Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
The program aims to revive untended and vacated spaces, leveraging the prowess of gardening.
—Kenneth J. Williams Jr., Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
Many are ignited either by lightning strikes or human activity, including untended campfires, unextinguished cigarettes, engine sparks and equipment malfunction.
—Elena Shao, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
Oscar Alvarado spends all of his waking hours, and some sleeping ones, watching the Weather Channel in his home in parched West Los Angeles, paying no attention to the world around him, not even when his 3-year-old twin granddaughters fall into the untended backyard pool.
—Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Sep. 2021
What few subplots there are go largely untended once the fight machine grinds into motion.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
Born of teenage stoner lore, 4:20 p.m. was allegedly the weekly meeting time for a group of five California high school students nicknamed the Waldos, who in 1971 would gather to smoke pot and search for the holy grail of weed — a flourishing crop supposedly left untended in the forest.
—Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2021
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Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2023
Just down the street, thousands of chickens clucked in an untended poultry shed.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
As cheaper overseas imports put Hawaiian plantations out of business in the end of the 20th century, that land sat untended.
—Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
The program aims to revive untended and vacated spaces, leveraging the prowess of gardening.
—Kenneth J. Williams Jr., Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
Many are ignited either by lightning strikes or human activity, including untended campfires, unextinguished cigarettes, engine sparks and equipment malfunction.
—Elena Shao, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
Oscar Alvarado spends all of his waking hours, and some sleeping ones, watching the Weather Channel in his home in parched West Los Angeles, paying no attention to the world around him, not even when his 3-year-old twin granddaughters fall into the untended backyard pool.
—Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Sep. 2021
What few subplots there are go largely untended once the fight machine grinds into motion.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
Born of teenage stoner lore, 4:20 p.m. was allegedly the weekly meeting time for a group of five California high school students nicknamed the Waldos, who in 1971 would gather to smoke pot and search for the holy grail of weed — a flourishing crop supposedly left untended in the forest.
—Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2021
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First Known Use
1598, in the meaning defined above
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“Untended.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/untended. Accessed 4 Dec. 2023.
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