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Adjective
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Unlike Starlink’s self-burning design, uncontrolled debris from defunct satellites and rocket stages could survive atmospheric reentry and land on Earth.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Oct. 2025 -
These warnings come during a period of persistently dry weather, accompanied by gusty winds, which significantly increases the risk of uncontrolled wildfire spread.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
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Who was this untrained woman, who named her research animals things like David Greybeard, Fifi, Merlin, and Flo?—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
1 Oct. 2025
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The untrained alligator wrestlers attempted to duct tape the alligator's mouth shut.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Köhler’s unbroken visual remove allows his actors to let arguments grow and play out at length.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
28 Sep. 2025
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Only one other jar of onions and a single package of mango passionfruit tea fell to the ground, both unbroken.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Trapped in their Hollywood Hills home, a family must fight for survival as a pack of savage coyotes closes in.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
3 Oct. 2025
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McBride sets the political context for Swift’s savage indignation by noting that 1727–1729 saw three successive harvest failures in Ireland.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Sep. 2025
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On either side of the cool, free-flowing river, hollows flanking the water conceal outtakes from another time—from prehistoric sites dating back thousands of years to untamed wilderness and waterfalls left wholly untouched.—
Katie Strasberg Rousso,
Southern Living,
19 Sep. 2025
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Those gardens, intended to be untamed, animating, and informal, are the work of Piet Oudolf, the creator of the High Line plantings, in New York.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Undocile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undocile. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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