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Recent Examples of unpunished
Law Without Accountability—A History of Failed Practice For decades, Lebanon's most consequential crimes have gone unpunished.
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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
Sadly, that prosecutor found that in these days of bad-faith politics, no good deed goes unpunished.
—Debra J. Saunders, Oc Register, 10 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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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
Sadly, that prosecutor found that in these days of bad-faith politics, no good deed goes unpunished.
—Debra J. Saunders, Oc Register, 10 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
Adjective
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McDaniel’s team is undisciplined.—
Omar Kelly
August 16,
Miami Herald,
16 Aug. 2025
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An underrated concern: J.J. McCarthy successfully scrambled twice in his one-minute drill at the end of practice, seizing on open rushing lanes the defensive line left behind with an undisciplined pass rush.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Reinforce Change Management With Staged Rollouts As with any outage, Pennsylvania’s 911 failure highlighted how uncontrolled changes—whether in hardware, software or configurations—can disrupt critical systems.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Baxdrostat, an experimental medicine made by AstraZeneca, showed promise in treating people with uncontrolled or resistant high blood pressure in a recent trial.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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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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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Our investor was obstinate, the seller was impatient, and my team was exhausted.—
Pankaj Vasani,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Of all the bad-hair-day culprits, matted hair can be the most stubborn and frustrating.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
5 Sep. 2025
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Spills can be blotted (never rubbed) with a dry cloth since the fabric is non-absorptive, and for more stubborn stains, dry cleaning is recommended.—
Zoë Sessums,
Architectural Digest,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Trump could end his indulgent policies soon, especially if Putin continues to be intransigent.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Aug. 2025
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The second gain for Ukraine is that the intransigent nature of Putin – despite all of Trump’s fawning – was widely on display.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The Bulls look to be the best team in the Group of Five conferences, while the Gators and coach Billy Napier are now under pressure with a difficult SEC schedule ahead.—
Erick Smith,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
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Usually the final day of boot camp is most difficult.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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Ipswich proved obdurate and then generous opponents — Newcastle’s 78 per cent possession was the highest by any team in a Premier League match this season — and their relegation was confirmed by this 3-0 defeat.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Unpunished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpunished. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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