unmanned 1 of 2

past tense of unman

unmanned

2 of 2

adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of unmanned
Verb
In addition to satellites, could iPhones one day receive 5G from an unmanned high-altitude plane or balloon? PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025 The incident also raised questions about whether the alliance, founded more than 70 years ago during the Cold War, has the right, cost-effective military setup to deal with the relatively modern threat of unmanned aerial vehicles. Andrew Gray, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025 One of the unmanned aerial vehicles crashed on the grounds of a Territorial Defence Forces unit in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą, near Warsaw. Amanda Castro shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025 The incident represented the first such incursion by unmanned Russian aircraft into the territory of a NATO member since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. John Deni, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unmanned
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmanned
Verb
  • Quantity beats quality when you're paralyzed by perfection.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • And during trial, I was also threatened to be paralyzed by Elijah.
    Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the State Public Defender office is struggling to attract law school graduates who are discouraged by low pay and the demanding nature of public defender appointments while still paying off student loans.
    MARGARET SHREINER, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Her ancestor’s analytic model discouraged self-revelation by the therapist, but Freud often meets her guests’ excavations of desire and vulnerability with her own candid recollections.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For Birkin, getting older meant a kind of invisibility, a prospect that at once unnerved and elated her.
    Anahid Nersessian, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • His relatives have cut contact, unnerved by the flock of police that tail him.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Family pets, especially dogs, are frightened by the noise and will hide or try to run away.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • In the first Nobody, Odenkirk’s Hutch has to reignite the sleeping assassin within himself after his family was frightened by a botched home invasion.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Economic insecurity and political corruption have for years left many of Nepal’s youth frustrated, setting the stage for today’s protest movement.
    Nir Kshetri, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2025
  • As a baby boomer and an amateur genealogist, I am continually frustrated by the lack of interest my grandchildren’s generation seems to have in learning about their family history — particularly mine.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Parents, scared by the specter of brain damage, are reluctant to let their kids play tackle football.
    Seth Wickersham, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2025
  • His home’s security system was triggered and reportedly scared off the burglar, and nothing was stolen from the property.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But instead of power suits and computer monitors, there was an intimate coziness and undone yet chic comfort to the clothing and the space.
    Anika Reed, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Margot Robbie has used the look to recover from her Barbie bleach jobs, stepping out in refreshingly undone styles and dark roots.
    Jeanne Ballion, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In that episode, the college football fans are terrified to find themselves in Pro Town, a place where people go to yoga on Saturdays.
    Kristi Dosh, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Murillo recalled a Cuban grandmother whose grandchildren were terrified to go to school after their father was detained in front of them at their own home by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Unmanned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmanned. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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