unpunished

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Recent Examples of unpunished So many fouls have gone unpunished at corner kicks this season. Oliver Kay, New York Times, 11 May 2026 The key question is whether fraud is widespread, systemic or goes unpunished. Alison Barkoff, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2026 She was subsequently kicked off the worship team, her family was ostracized and the man who’d attacked her was left unpunished. Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026 The key question is whether fraud is widespread, systemic or goes unpunished. Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unpunished
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpunished
Adjective
  • McCain called her ex-colleagues 's‑‑‑‑y and undisciplined' during the on-air discussion.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 17 June 2026
  • Just disbelief and incredulity that England should find themselves again facing accusations of a drinking culture and a far too loose and undisciplined team environment after their first Test since the shambles of the Ashes.
    Paul Newman, New York Times, 11 June 2026
Adjective
  • That data can be retained and used in future ways, unknown and uncontrolled by those whose biometric data has been collected.
    Anne Toomey McKenna, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
  • Outside of programmed scripts, robots struggle to perform autonomous actions in uncontrolled environments.
    Stephen Witt, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Adjective
  • The rigidity and delusions of tyrannies are incorrigible; their purity spirals end in executions, not just cancellations; their adventures end in devastation and slaughter.
    Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • Nilsson, an incorrigible Midwesterner, had a history of downplaying her depth.
    Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Adjective
  • The things museums collect are often obstinate and unyielding; research and context can be a way of coaxing them to speak.
    Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 26 June 2026
  • The council is obstinate, dismissive.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The weather service’s forecast discussion for Kansas City said the stubborn heat could last through the Fourth of July.
    Christine Rapp, NBC news, 28 June 2026
  • Against all odds, the stubborn housing market has become a hotspot for young talent.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 28 June 2026
Adjective
  • Then, in 1930, Horkheimer, a brilliant, turbulent man with a melancholic streak, became director and instilled a more intransigent perspective.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • This seemingly intransigent problem now has a solution, thanks to a team led by Rudich and Römer.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 May 2026
Adjective
  • Aviation experts said those conditions would have been difficult to navigate that evening when the helicopter, a Robinson R66, crashed in the Dawson Forest Wildlife Management Area.
    Caroline Silva, AJC.com, 29 June 2026
  • But traffic on the waterway remains a fraction of pre-war levels with different authorities vying to organize the transit of vessels, leaving operators with a difficult choice over which path to take.
    Xiaoqian Lin, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
Adjective
  • Possibly this was the case at élite law schools in the nineteen-nineties, where even the most obdurate deans could not afford to ignore their militant students indefinitely.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • 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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“Unpunished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpunished. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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