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Adjective
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For more than a century, the U.S. and Canada built a close, prosperous partnership—standing together in war, mutually fueling their economies through trade, and maintaining the world's longest undefended border.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
10 Mar. 2025 -
Trump’s aggressive tariffs may undermine another of his objectives — countering the dangers posed by a (largely) undefended Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, at a time when China and Russia are taking an increasing interest in the Arctic.—
The Editors,
National Review,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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For now, critics say the public remains uninformed—and potentially unprotected.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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This is a standard precaution to prevent other hackers from exploiting the flaw, while some users are still unprotected.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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But the ride for Palantir has been far from smooth, and shares have been susceptible to volatile swings.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
28 Apr. 2025
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Tovar, for example, researches specific genes that make people more susceptible to diabetes, which affects about 38 million Americans, including some who don't respond well to existing treatments.—
Brett Kelman,
NPR,
28 Apr. 2025
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These rules establish that an executor who makes distributions from the estate before satisfying estate tax liability may become personally liable for the unpaid estate tax.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.D.,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Spacey has denied any allegations of improper or criminal behavior and in 2022, he was found not liable for battery against actor Anthony Rapp. CNN has reached out to representatives for Spacey and Netflix for comment about the new video.—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Too often, shooters use unsecured weapons to commit these atrocities.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Apr. 2025
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The market had an unsecured fire extinguisher on the floor next to the front register.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Sheer rock walls loom on one side, while the other, which is completely unguarded, plunges to the narrow canyon below.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Apr. 2025
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In March, a 43-year-old visitor from California drowned while snorkeling on Kauai at unguarded Larsen’s Beach.—
Jen Murphy,
Outside Online,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Here are some basic facts about how Recall works on a PC since there's a lot of FUD circulating about this, and much of the information on the Internet is about the older, insecure version from last year: Recall is per-user.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
21 Apr. 2025
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Matty sees her striving and starting to get insecure, and part of the collateral damage has been Sarah.—
Jim Halterman,
Variety,
18 Apr. 2025
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Top stock picks With oil prices under pressure, UBS sees independent exploration and production firms and the oilfield services companies as the most exposed.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
15 Apr. 2025
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And, while the ball was mid-air, Zwolle’s attackers were to sprint to the penalty area to meet it on the way down and, ideally, stick it past an exposed goalkeeper.—
Daniel Taylor,
New York Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Assailable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assailable. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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