unpunished

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Recent Examples of unpunished The Wolf of God digs deep into how his misdeeds went unpunished for so long. PC Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025 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. 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 Time and again, gruesome attacks happen despite warnings, complaints and previous attacks that went unheeded by dog owners and unpunished by the legal system. Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unpunished
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpunished
Adjective
  • Penalties made a big difference — both ways Penalties hit Missouri hard against Alabama last week, and the Tigers continued to look undisciplined at times Saturday.
    Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
  • An undisciplined, unproductive outing against the Jets in London at least momentarily provided reason to hit the pause button.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The study estimates that more than 2,300 rocket bodies are currently orbiting Earth and will eventually re-enter the atmosphere uncontrolled.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
  • However, unlike beer or cheese, where microbes are intentionally introduced and controlled, fermentation in cocoa beans is a spontaneous process and largely uncontrolled.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • As Bob throws a tantrum with the resistance’s obstinate operator, Sensei procures a rifle for Bob too.
    Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Month over month, that would be the same stubborn pace that has persisted for more than two years.
    Steve Kopack, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Results show that microbial iron mining can immobilize toxic metals and convert stubborn pollutants into less harmful compounds.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • One of the world’s most persistent waste problems, plastics are durable and difficult to recycle.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • But grass is difficult to digest for the mammal.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But Vučić has remained obdurate.
    Hanna Begić, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
  • 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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“Unpunished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpunished. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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