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Recent Examples of unpunished
Bonitto was flagged for unnecessary roughness, but the retaliation went unpunished.
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Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025
Talk about no good deed going unpunished.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
Prigg, who went unpunished along with his accomplices, became a sheriff.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Despite numerous conclusive assessments that the Saudi regime planned and perpetrated Khashoggi’s murder, the high-level officials who ordered his execution have gone unpunished, six years on.
—Scott Griffen, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
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Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025
Talk about no good deed going unpunished.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
Prigg, who went unpunished along with his accomplices, became a sheriff.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Despite numerous conclusive assessments that the Saudi regime planned and perpetrated Khashoggi’s murder, the high-level officials who ordered his execution have gone unpunished, six years on.
—Scott Griffen, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpunished
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Arkansas had an undisciplined 18 penalties for 193 yards, both school records, compared to 4 flags for 30 yards for Mississippi State.—
Tom Murphy,
Arkansas Online,
31 Dec. 2025
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But the Aztecs’ brutal, undisciplined loss at Albuquerque High was too much to overcome.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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This means that its uncontrolled deorbit could have dangerous consequences.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Jan. 2026
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That winter, the concrete spillway collapsed in one section during massive storms, prompting the evacuation of 188,000 people as water raged uncontrolled into the river below, and concerns grew that part of the dam might fail.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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But the Coop had one thing that failed cooperatives didn’t: Joe Holtz, a gregarious 22-year-old from Sheepshead Bay with a mind for numbers and an incorrigible idealism.—
The Editors,
Curbed,
15 Dec. 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
Adjective
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Not when Jaclyn is obstinate and over it.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Jan. 2026
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These books can feel obstinate in their refusal of pleasure—an approach that does not seem to interest Berman in the slightest.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Universal Friend was independent, resolute, and brave—qualities that we Americans often claim as uniquely ours—but also stubborn and egotistical.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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Apply a baking soda paste, or, for darker or stubborn stains, a paste of baking soda and white vinegar.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
20 Jan. 2026
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Among those in the last category Freston dealt with personally was Sumner Redstone, the intransigent late media magnate, whose $3.4 billion takeover of Viacom in 1987 allowed Freston to grow MTV from a scrappy DIY upstart to a world-beating, generation-defining institution.—
Jake Nevins,
Vulture,
17 Nov. 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
Adjective
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Business leaders, of course, have their own interests and shareholders to serve, but Democrats can still protect the public interest while giving CEOs a seat at the table to reach pragmatic answers to difficult questions like these.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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Activist groups say hundreds of people have been killed, though the true toll remains difficult to verify due to the internet blackout and tight state controls on information.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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Despite the deluge of new data, the megaliths had given up none of their obdurate strangeness.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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Or perhaps this is the perfect opportunity to become obdurate, go weird and dive into the B-sides and deep cuts.—
Daniel Dylan Wray,
Pitchfork,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Unpunished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpunished. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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