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Recent Examples of unpunished
Every unpunished lie becomes permission.
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Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
Iran doesn’t intend to push the country toward war, but won’t allow either domestic or international criminals to go unpunished, Khamenei said.
—Arsalan Shahla, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2026
While these high-profile cases break through the silence and expose the egregious abuses of men whose standing insulated them for years, millions of survivors, particularly migrant women, remain invisible, and countless perpetrators go unpunished.
—Mónica Ramírez, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
The violation will almost certainly go unpunished, but the rules and norms will be missed.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
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Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
Iran doesn’t intend to push the country toward war, but won’t allow either domestic or international criminals to go unpunished, Khamenei said.
—Arsalan Shahla, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2026
While these high-profile cases break through the silence and expose the egregious abuses of men whose standing insulated them for years, millions of survivors, particularly migrant women, remain invisible, and countless perpetrators go unpunished.
—Mónica Ramírez, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
The violation will almost certainly go unpunished, but the rules and norms will be missed.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for unpunished
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpunished
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The unconscious Moon moves through your 9th House of Distance, opposing undisciplined Uranus in your conversation zone.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Feb. 2026
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Meanwhile, the Gators struggled mightily in the trenches during Billy Napier’s four-year tenure, posting three losing seasons marked by inconsistency and undisciplined play up front.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Waterproofing systems and seals are failing, causing pooling and uncontrolled leakage.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Feb. 2026
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Inflammation is a natural defense mechanism—but chronic uncontrolled inflammation can be harmful and worsen disease, Klein explains.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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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
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Courtenay, as a caregiver with deeply sympathetic layers, exhibits frustration and compassion in equal measure, blending the obstinate protestations of a man in his twilight years with the lifelong tenderness and wisdom that often accompany them.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2026
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Bell-Johnson was obstinate in an interview with detectives and made no admission.—
Emerson Clarridge
Updated February 6,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Here are a few extra tips to get an even deeper clean on your window and door tracks, or how to tackle stubborn mold spots that won't go away.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
24 Feb. 2026
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From eliminating multi-hour furnace cycles in glass manufacturing to reengineering how poorly soluble drugs dissolve in the body, Leonard Siebert is applying materials science to two of engineering’s most stubborn bottlenecks.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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From above, the light of an intransigent sun falls on the creosote bush, the coyotillo, the cat’s claw.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Feb. 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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Mascherano said his second-half lineup change was a difficult one to make.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
2 Mar. 2026
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The winners said the warmer-than-normal conditions made a challenging course even more difficult.—
Bo Evans,
CBS News,
1 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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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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