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Recent Examples of unpunished
According to Aitken, while crime statistics show criminal activity is declining, what’s actually occurring is that fewer arrests are being made as law breakers go unpunished.
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Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
Law Without Accountability—A History of Failed Practice For decades, Lebanon's most consequential crimes have gone unpunished.
—Lynn Zovighian, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
Increasingly precise laws and regulations shone a bright light on the persistent, unpunished hypocrisy of the privileged.
—Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2025
An investigation by the USA TODAY Network Ohio bureau found that gruesome dog attacks happen despite warnings, complaints and previous attacks that went unheeded by dog owners and unpunished by the legal system.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
Law Without Accountability—A History of Failed Practice For decades, Lebanon's most consequential crimes have gone unpunished.
—Lynn Zovighian, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
Increasingly precise laws and regulations shone a bright light on the persistent, unpunished hypocrisy of the privileged.
—Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2025
An investigation by the USA TODAY Network Ohio bureau found that gruesome dog attacks happen despite warnings, complaints and previous attacks that went unheeded by dog owners and unpunished by the legal system.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpunished
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McDaniels also upped their rate of pre-snap motion, going from 28.3% to 56.7%, per Sharp Football Analysis; all basic tests for an undisciplined defense like Miami’s.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
16 Sep. 2025
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This can lead to slow responses, suboptimal trade-offs and undisciplined reactions.—
Tom Strohl,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Opposition to the storage systems usually focuses on the possibility of thermal runaway, a chain reaction of uncontrolled heating that can lead to fire or an explosion.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
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According to Healthline, lymphoproliferative disorders are a group of diseases characterized by the uncontrolled production of white blood cells called lymphocytes.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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Mary Roy, too, married to flee violence—her father, a civil servant under the British, beat his wife and whipped his children—only to find that her husband was an incorrigible drunk.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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Who was this alien observer, whose gaze made me into a (slightly) better person, whose gaze (slightly) reduced my incorrigible self-centeredness?—
Michael W. Clune,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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The other parents in Julianna’s comments had a similarly good sense of humor about how weaning an obstinate toddler can sometimes feel like negotiating with a dictator.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
11 Sep. 2025
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There’s something admirable, in an obstinate way, about Coen choosing to make lesbian B-movies that clock in at under 90 minutes as his first and second solo features following his creative split with Joel in 2018.—
Daniel Bromfield,
Mercury News,
29 Aug. 2025
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Originally bred in Germany to hunt badgers, these small canines are energetic, bold and stubborn.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Both options meant navigating some stubborn supporters.—
Kevin Coulson,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Public opinion has historically played a decisive role in shutdown fights, with voters often blaming the party seen as most intransigent.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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Although Congress and Allende had months to work for compromise solutions to the nation’s problems, both remained intransigent.—
Kristina Mani,
The Conversation,
23 Sep. 2025
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For once, the bulk of the anger was directed not at Fosun — the investment group and majority shareholder – and the Molineux hierarchy who have conspired to deal Pereira a difficult hand, but at the head coach himself and his players.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Romancelandia’s social world, harnessed by its business-minded authors, may make its success exceedingly difficult to replicate.—
Rebecca Ackermann,
The Atlantic,
5 Oct. 2025
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But Vučić has remained obdurate.—
Hanna Begić,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2025
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Most of these initiatives met obdurate resistance from more powerful sectors of the state, and by the end of Khatami’s second term, in 2005, the reform movement had lost much of its momentum.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
8 Aug. 2025
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