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Recent Examples of unpunished
According to Aitken, while crime statistics show criminal activity is declining, what’s actually occurring is that fewer arrests are being made as law breakers go unpunished.
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Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
Law Without Accountability—A History of Failed Practice For decades, Lebanon's most consequential crimes have gone unpunished.
—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
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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Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
Law Without Accountability—A History of Failed Practice For decades, Lebanon's most consequential crimes have gone unpunished.
—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
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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Then, uncontrolled, jerky movements develop as well as vision loss, dementia, and seizures.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
11 Sep. 2025
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While viral replication results in uncontrolled production of a large amounts of the protein, the way it’s produced by the mRNA vaccine is very different.—
Deborah Fuller,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 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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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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The other parents in Julianna’s comments had a similarly good sense of humor about how weaning an obstinate toddler can sometimes feel like negotiating with a dictator.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
11 Sep. 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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Viewers were quick to point out the hilarity of the dog's stubborn protest, with many suggesting that the dachshund had already claimed permanent rights to the bed.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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The stubborn myth that Jews are too safe to be targets is colliding with a painful new reality.—
Andrew Weinstein,
Time,
12 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
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Ncell, Nepal’s second-largest telecommunications service provider, noted that shutting down all platforms at once was, in any case, technically difficult and warned that the move would severely impact business.—
Nir Kshetri,
The Conversation,
14 Sep. 2025
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Last summer, after years of hip problems and some difficult surgeries to address them, Jill had an operation that went poorly.—
Bianca Bosker,
The Atlantic,
14 Sep. 2025
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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 18 Sep. 2025.
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