How to Use untested in a Sentence

untested

adjective
  • In fact, this claim is the thing that's untested.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Then came a statewide push to clear shelves of untested kits across the state.
    David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2023
  • But the hurdle for its use is high, and its scope is untested.
    Alessandro Speciale, Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2018
  • But much of the team is young and untested on the sport’s biggest stage.
    Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2021
  • Yet the new policies for dealing with such crises are untested.
    Ryan Tracy, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Caballero mentions is more far out than even the rest of these untested ideas.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The state could proceed with its untested, three-drug cocktail.
    Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 11 July 2018
  • But her commitment is untested and short-lived.
    Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Such a standoff would be largely untested.
    Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The Lightning is the first of its kind, so demand is untested.
    Annie White, Car and Driver, 20 May 2021
  • The state laws that do regulate them have largely been untested in court.
    Stefan Becket, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Marshall said there are currently no untested rape kits in the city.
    Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Her case first shined light on the Portland police cache of untested kits.
    Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 2 May 2018
  • While Boston doesn’t have a backlog of untested kits, the state does.
    Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
  • From full-sized models to personal blenders to hand blenders, no type went untested.
    Eva Bleyer, Good Housekeeping, 7 July 2023
  • Several states have laws on the books that are ambiguous and untested in court.
    Steve Beynon, Cincinnati.com, 21 Oct. 2017
  • But because the law is so new, and so untested, there could be a steep learning curve for judges in how to apply it.
    Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But aside from Dillon Mitchell, much of those names are unproven and untested.
    OregonLive.com, 2 May 2018
  • Will Raymond’s second chair, untested Mya, take over the case?
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 July 2024
  • Most of the efforts are untested, and each carries its own risks in a war zone where thousands have already been killed.
    Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The audit found that over 5,000 kits sat untested in storage.
    Justice Amick, Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2017
  • The model is not just a lofty idea that the architects are asking people to try, untested.
    CNN, 27 May 2021
  • The untested method, the lawsuit said, had not been peer-reviewed and could set a precedent for use on other projects.
    Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 8 Dec. 2017
  • So many of them were untested by the heat and danger, the din and violence and fear, of the battlefield.
    Kostya Kennedy, Time, 16 Feb. 2026
  • But the Well’s model of offering all these services in one place is untested.
    Keiko Morris, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
  • With such new and untested systems prone to making mistakes, this is sorely needed.
    Parmy Olson, Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • In the rush, some untested companies are winning work in Texas and across the country.
    Allie Morris, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Bush was then the two-term governor of Texas, appealing but in some ways untested.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Google, like other tech giants, has been wary of a backlash against untested AI.
    James Vincent, The Verge, 6 Feb. 2023
  • And some, dissuaded by the prospect of lingering on sidewalks for more than three hours in the rain, walked away untested.
    Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2020

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