unchaperoned

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Recent Examples of unchaperoned This device comes into play the moment Anthony encounters the headstrong, independent Kate on an unchaperoned early-morning ride. Katie Rife, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2022 An unchaperoned Eloise attends a public lecture series and is delighted to bumps into Theo there. Sara Netzley, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2022 Still, he’s brought up short one morning, encountering on horseback the startling, scandalously unchaperoned Kate Sharma ( Simone Ashley ), who has recently arrived in town with the mission of making a match for her younger sister, Edwina (Charithra Chandran). John Anderson, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022 The Mahoning Drive-In opened in 1949, part of a wave of drive-ins that became popular in America after World War II, first with parents and their young children, and then with teenagers who sought unchaperoned privacy. Simon Abrams, New York Times, 9 July 2021 See All Example Sentences for unchaperoned
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unchaperoned
Adjective
  • That morning, in a new suburb of Glendale, three-year-old Kelly Keen wandered, unattended, out of her house and into the driveway.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Lovenduski said the unattended pit bull severely injured Ziggy, leaving the dog with multiple broken bones.
    Ross DiMattei, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Families with children and unaccompanied minors are typically placed in hotels instead of congregate shelters.
    Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Zheng was placed in immigration detention at the Orange County Correctional Facility, and Yuanxin was transferred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which holds unaccompanied immigrant children, according to the DHS.
    Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 22 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • Writing a novel is a solitary experience but not writing one is even more so, without the occasional call from an editor or marketing person to keep me warm.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Three years of growth and dedicated time to the craft of basketball counteracted one solitary misfire.
    Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • When family weekend came, Alessandro was alone.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2026
  • This week’s story is about Diann Droste, who in 1973 was a 16-year-old high schooler traveling around the US by Greyhound bus when a massive snowstorm threatened to strand her alone in a small town in Minnesota.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 31 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Of the other eight films in Variety’s selection, six are first solo feature debuts, reflecting Guadalajara’s status as a key platform for the exhibition and international promotion of new voices.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Capets was part of a solo second dive to make sure there were no additional victims or vehicles.
    Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • But her mother guards her fiercely, because even the most minor imbalance in her small, cloistered world could bring the seizures back again.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The auction house leaves behind its more cloistered Madison Avenue home for airy galleries in an 80-foot glass atrium, as well as an opulent neoclassical rotunda in the historic Steinway Hall.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026

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“Unchaperoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unchaperoned. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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