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Recent Examples of unpunished
The key question is whether fraud is widespread, systemic or goes unpunished.
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Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2026
Though outright cheating does not go unpunished, contestants are often rewarded for finding loopholes in the rules and exploiting them.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Apr. 2026
Could the mother’s abuser also be that of the daughter—still unpunished to this day?
—Time, Time, 7 Apr. 2026
While the 1930s and 1940s did see some instances of carnival poking fun at the tyranny of the Nazi regime (none of which, it should be noted, went unpunished), Birdsall and other scholars maintain that the festival was, first and foremost, an avenue for propaganda.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 1 Apr. 2026
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Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2026
Though outright cheating does not go unpunished, contestants are often rewarded for finding loopholes in the rules and exploiting them.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Apr. 2026
Could the mother’s abuser also be that of the daughter—still unpunished to this day?
—Time, Time, 7 Apr. 2026
While the 1930s and 1940s did see some instances of carnival poking fun at the tyranny of the Nazi regime (none of which, it should be noted, went unpunished), Birdsall and other scholars maintain that the festival was, first and foremost, an avenue for propaganda.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 1 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpunished
Adjective
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The Mammoth played undisciplined hockey throughout the first period, which eventually cost them in the final minute.—
Jesse Granger,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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The outfielder’s at-bats were largely undisciplined, and judging by the entirety of his turbulent 2025 season, Veen clearly lacked the off-field maturity to be ready for his call-up.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Reduce blood pressure in people with uncontrolled but treated hypertension.—
Cathy Nelson,
Verywell Health,
13 May 2026
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But there is some concern about how the infection might manifest if contracted by someone with uncontrolled HIV or another condition that compromises the immune system.—
Helen Branswell,
STAT,
11 May 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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The council is obstinate, dismissive.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
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But amid an increasingly obstinate City Council, opponent Ald.—
Alice Yin,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images Are Americans finally starting to feel the strain of soaring gas prices and stubborn inflation?—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC news,
19 May 2026
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Treasury yields have gone up in recent months as stubborn inflation reduces the likelihood of Fed rate cuts, Pisula notes, while geopolitical tensions add more long-term risk to rates.—
Tim Maxwell,
CBS News,
19 May 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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When Thomson went through a difficult divorce, in 2014, Djena would often check in on her, showing up at her door with food.—
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Crow-Armstrong had just failed to make a highly difficult, leaping catch at the wall.—
Alejandro Avila OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
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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
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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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