as in loosened
not tightly fastened, tied, or stretched
an unsecured luggage rack on top of the car that was a hazard to other vehicles on the road
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Recent Examples of unsecured
Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects.
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Nc Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
19 June 2026
Nvidia sold $25 billion of senior unsecured notes on June 15, its first bond sale since 2021, across maturities stretching to 2056.
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Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
Pearson said the bear was tipping over trash bins and had access to unsecured livestock feed.
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Nicole Blanchard,
Idaho Statesman,
18 June 2026
But what still isn’t clear is how much money would be available to pay its unsecured vendors.
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Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
12 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for unsecured
Nc Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
19 June 2026
Nvidia sold $25 billion of senior unsecured notes on June 15, its first bond sale since 2021, across maturities stretching to 2056.
—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
Pearson said the bear was tipping over trash bins and had access to unsecured livestock feed.
—
Nicole Blanchard,
Idaho Statesman,
18 June 2026
But what still isn’t clear is how much money would be available to pay its unsecured vendors.
—
Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
12 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for unsecured
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsecured
Adjective
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Hence shirt jackets and safari jackets in linen and leather came to the fore, as did denim Bermudas, linen polos and lots of lifestyle knits amid its more formal, full-canvas tailoring — styled with a loosened tie.
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For now, though, Detroit’s automakers are leaning into the lucre that comes from selling millions of fossil-fuel vehicles in a rare moment of loosened regulation.
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This pair is loose through the hips and thighs, with a not-too-wide leg that feels timeless.
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Potential profits have encouraged traffickers to ship massive amounts of illicit drugs to both countries, often across the Pacific Ocean from South America via the Pacific Islands, a loose cluster of thousands of islands and atolls.
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And nobody knows more about being a target of The Odyssey’s most insecure fans than Emily Wilson.
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This finding specifically held true for people with fearful and preoccupied attachment styles, two subtypes of insecure attachment associated with a craving for intimacy but, respectively, a deep fear of it or a fear of rejection and abandonment.
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And those problems are magnified in the slack middle section of this 160-minute film, as the hunters make discoveries of their own in the forest, unnecessary subplots and aliens multiply, and there are some halfhearted attempts at giving them a thin backstory.
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Having replaced McGinn, Sancho was still settling into the game’s pace, but was markedly slack in possession.
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They got approved for a mortgage on a £150,000 (about $198,441) two-bedroom, semi-detached house in Seaham, England.
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Olise has purposefully cultivated a kind of detached non-persona.
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“Unsecured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsecured. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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