How to Use unexamined in a Sentence
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Nothing will change as long as each of us clings to our own unexamined beliefs.
—Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 14 Jan. 2024
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Since this is an Apple ad, no frame of this can go unexamined.
—Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
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The details change, but what goes unexamined does not.
—Karl Moore, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
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Texas is home to thousands of caves, many of them unmapped and unexamined.
—Keye Staff, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2026
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And yet, as in the case of so many of its peers, the show’s methods have been left largely unexamined.
—Hugh Eakin, Harper's magazine, 19 Jan. 2020
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Quent’s love is rather like what a child might feel for his mother; his wife is an unexamined ground of being.
—Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
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What starts as an odd story about a speaking bust becomes a portrait of unexamined lives.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
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The unexamined life wasn’t worth living?
—Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
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The focus of the current policy debate has been on the means; the end is left unexamined.
—Yangyang Cheng, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
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The losses are less clear because a parenting fail is only a fail if left unexamined.
—Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
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Hundreds of graves had been cut into the sandy soil of a pine forest, isolated and unexamined.
—Marc Santora Nicole Tung, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
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Then this body of work sat, boxed up and carried through a life’s career, unexamined for nearly 60 years.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2025
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Was that work evil, immoral or simply the sort of unexamined conduct that could pass for reputable science at the time?
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 28 June 2018
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The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is not always worth reading.
—Carlos Lozada, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
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No one dared disturb those sites in a country where Franco’s legacy has long been left unexamined.
—Constant Méheut Samuel Aranda, New York Times, 18 July 2023
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This is a pity, as Persian statesmen and the clerical rulers have not lived unexamined lives.
—Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
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The present is always coming at us so hard and fast that the unexamined past fades more from consciousness in the echo chamber of the now.
—Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile risks can go unexamined.
—Nizan Geslevich Packin, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
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Thin has long been the unexamined default in literary fiction.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2024
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The scale of these partnerships was largely unexamined until now.
—Zachary Small, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
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The biggest risks often hide in the unexamined parts of your vendor ecosystem, regardless of size.
—Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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The cost of unexamined rape evidence has become more apparent over the years as states process tens of thousands untested kits.
—Catherine Rentz, ProPublica, 16 Dec. 2021
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Williams says Black nuns are an important sect of Black feminism that has gone unexamined.
—Veronica Wells, Essence, 23 Sep. 2022
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The baseball-loving world may have been expecting this from Berríos, but that doesn’t mean his ascent should go unexamined.
—Michael Beller, SI.com, 18 Apr. 2018
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Nor is the world rid of the unexamined prejudice Archie personified — far from it.
—David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2021
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The same could be said of bears, foxes, crows, turtles, even ants — a whole menagerie as yet unexamined, affecting not only plants but even fungi.
—Brandon Keim Tristan Spinski, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
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This new approach may not be perfect or even work, but an unexamined or impulsive response likely has a lower chance of success.
—Kevin Eikenberry, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
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Much of this has to do with the underlying frame of the show, which possesses a whole dimension of unexamined one-percentism.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
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Yet the present state of AI has deep and mostly unexamined implications for the future of meganets.
—WIRED, 22 Mar. 2023
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Meanwhile, few of the white characters are made to reckon in any serious way with their own unexamined biases.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2023
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