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Recent Examples of unpunished
No grand romantic gesture goes unpunished.
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Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 5 Feb. 2026
Those who abuse power would go unpunished.
—The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2026
Every unpunished lie becomes permission.
—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
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Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 5 Feb. 2026
Those who abuse power would go unpunished.
—The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2026
Every unpunished lie becomes permission.
—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
See All Example Sentences for unpunished
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpunished
Adjective
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But also, a problem for our team is undisciplined fouling at times.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
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Ryan Hartman took an undisciplined penalty in the final minutes against the Lightning.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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An inevitable problem with bus navigation is not the app but the relatively uncontrolled environment of the street itself.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
25 Mar. 2026
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While the virus is continuing to spread uncontrolled in the southwest part of Utah, other parts of the state — including areas closer to Salt Lake City — are now experiencing increases in cases.—
Erika Edwards,
NBC news,
13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Daisy’s strategy with Mike has always been to treat him like a misbehaved child, which works insofar as scolding an incorrigible child does.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2026
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Terrible for me, an incorrigible snoop of other people’s phones, but probably a good thing for society at large.—
David Pierce,
The Verge,
28 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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But amid an increasingly obstinate City Council, opponent Ald.—
Alice Yin,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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As negotiations continued, government officials felt Amodei was proving far more obstinate than the CEOs of other leading labs.—
Harry Booth,
Time,
11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Data readiness, security, integrations, workflow redesign, and building human skills remain stubborn bottlenecks for true AI implementation.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
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Michigan made only two three-pointers all night but still muscled its way to a 69-63 victory over stingy, stubborn Connecticut.—
Senior Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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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
Adjective
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There were also high-arcing 3-pointers that touched nothing but the net, a difficult runner through contact that went in, and the kind of gravity that gave Kristaps Porzingis a layup just by cutting into space while the big man dove.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2026
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Some things in life are difficult.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
6 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Iran, with its massive military capabilities, its oil wealth, its appetite for regional hegemony and its obdurate Islamism may have been the foremost obstacle to Israel’s integration into the region since 1979.—
Ron Kampeas,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Mar. 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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“Unpunished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpunished. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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