Definition of UNTRIED

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Recent Examples on the Web Lacob fired a successful head coach (Mark Jackson) who was super-tight with the team superstar (Stephen Curry) to bring in an untried and unconventional head coach. — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, "‘The Last Dance’ — What’s the real meaning and message?," 20 May 2020 Despite serious warnings from experts, Iowa’s Democratic Party handed part of its election infrastructure to a highly networked start-up with a handful of engineers building an entirely untried app. — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, "The Company That Botched the Iowa Caucus Was Formed Only Months Ago," 4 Feb. 2020 And the Fed provided details on another previously-untried program that could give relief to major US employers left out of other government initiatives. — Jeanna Smialek, BostonGlobe.com, "New Fed Programs Could Pump $2.3 Trillion Into the Economy," 9 Apr. 2020 This cash transfer is a previously untried (in the U.S.) solution to alleviating the effects of a recession. — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, "Taylor: Even after coronavirus goes away, universal basic income is here to stay," 20 Mar. 2020 But overall, the coverage tends to be haphazard, after-the-fact, and not oriented enough to deeper issues such as the pressures and inducements for governments to invest in untried new voting machines. — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, "The media is blowing its chance to head off an Election Day debacle," 8 Mar. 2020 But those plans are more expensive and untried, not to mention equally demanding on the fluid dynamics front. — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, "Why are parachutes such a problem for space travel?," 5 Nov. 2019 Lynching is the extrajudicial murder of an untried suspect, usually by a mob and often by hanging. — al, "Montgomery memorial shows how wrong Trump was about ‘lynching'," 22 Oct. 2019 Lynching is the extrajudicial murder of an untried suspect, usually by a mob and often by hanging. — Gillian Brockell, The Denver Post, "Analysis: More than 4,000 people have been lynched in the U.S. Trump isn’t one of them.," 22 Oct. 2019

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“Untried.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/untried. Accessed 5 Jul. 2020.

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