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
The defense also highlighted the treatment of the Lachman fire scene, an area Haney said was never treated as a crime scene and was left unsecured for 12 days, when firefighters, emergency personnel, hikers, animals and vehicles all traversed the burn area.
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Sierra Van Der Brug,
Daily News,
10 June 2026
Companies can’t hand over important access codes to unsecured AI agents, making cyber a key component of AI infrastructure.
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Zev Fima,
CNBC,
4 June 2026
Instead, Dean Gialamas agreed to a $1 million unsecured bond.
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Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
3 June 2026
Its lines include both secured and unsecured loans, as well as auto finance, credit cards and some insurance products.
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Brett Owens,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for unsecured
Sierra Van Der Brug,
Daily News,
10 June 2026
Companies can’t hand over important access codes to unsecured AI agents, making cyber a key component of AI infrastructure.
—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
4 June 2026
Instead, Dean Gialamas agreed to a $1 million unsecured bond.
—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
3 June 2026
Its lines include both secured and unsecured loans, as well as auto finance, credit cards and some insurance products.
—
Brett Owens,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for unsecured
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsecured
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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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Next, carefully remove the bowl from the microwave and use a microfiber cloth to wipe away all the loosened grime.
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The pace of rumors concerning Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s pending wedding exploded this week, helped in large part by a big-city mayor with loose lips.
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When Díaz underwent the procedure to remove loose bodies from his elbow in late April, the Dodgers eyed a post-All-Star break return.
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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 25 Jun. 2026.
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