1
: not tested or proved by experience or trial
a recruit untried in combat
2
: not tried in court
Examples of untried in a Sentence
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Ukraine’s forces, particularly green and untried counteroffensive brigades, face several challenges that cannot be directly remedied by equipment supplies.
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Karolina Hird, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
Among the surprises so far: A unique – and slow – rollout for DeSantis Rather than staging a big rally with supporters – as done by candidates Trump, Nikki Haley and Tim Scott – DeSantis followed up his Federal Election Commission filing with an interview in an untried venue: Twitter Spaces.
—David Jackson, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
But the database’s users around the globe have managed to make just a fraction of these for testing, leaving thousands untried.
—Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 20 Apr. 2023
That changed on Saturday, when eight cheetahs arrived in central India after a flight from Africa, initiating a great untried experiment for the world: whether a top predator population can be brought back to life in a place where it was long ago hunted into extinction.
—Hari Kumar, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
That’s why G2 Content Marketing Manager Mara Calvello recommends tapping untried feedback sources to get a 360-degree view of your work.
—William Arruda, Forbes, 26 May 2022
The price cap attempts to defuse that possibility with a novel but untried plan to allow Russia to continue selling oil on the global market, but at a discount.
—Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2022
Alabama could be ready to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence later this month, a state attorney told a federal judge Monday.
—CBS News, 12 Sep. 2022
Meeting on Monday in the Bavarian Alps, President Biden and the other Group of 7 leaders were poised to embrace an aggressive but untried plan to manipulate the price of oil and restrict the revenue that underwrites Mr. Putin’s war machine.
—New York Times, 27 June 2022
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Karolina Hird, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
Among the surprises so far: A unique – and slow – rollout for DeSantis Rather than staging a big rally with supporters – as done by candidates Trump, Nikki Haley and Tim Scott – DeSantis followed up his Federal Election Commission filing with an interview in an untried venue: Twitter Spaces.
—David Jackson, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
But the database’s users around the globe have managed to make just a fraction of these for testing, leaving thousands untried.
—Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 20 Apr. 2023
That changed on Saturday, when eight cheetahs arrived in central India after a flight from Africa, initiating a great untried experiment for the world: whether a top predator population can be brought back to life in a place where it was long ago hunted into extinction.
—Hari Kumar, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
That’s why G2 Content Marketing Manager Mara Calvello recommends tapping untried feedback sources to get a 360-degree view of your work.
—William Arruda, Forbes, 26 May 2022
The price cap attempts to defuse that possibility with a novel but untried plan to allow Russia to continue selling oil on the global market, but at a discount.
—Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2022
Alabama could be ready to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence later this month, a state attorney told a federal judge Monday.
—CBS News, 12 Sep. 2022
Meeting on Monday in the Bavarian Alps, President Biden and the other Group of 7 leaders were poised to embrace an aggressive but untried plan to manipulate the price of oil and restrict the revenue that underwrites Mr. Putin’s war machine.
—New York Times, 27 June 2022
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First Known Use
1526, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Untried.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/untried. Accessed 6 Dec. 2023.
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adjective
un·tried
ˌən-ˈtrīd 
ˈən-
1
: not tested or proved by experience or trial
untried soldiers
2
: not yet tried in court
a long list of untried cases
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