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Recent Examples of unsoundness In looking back at the history of Emtech, the colt who suffered a catastrophic breakdown in Saturday’s eighth race, it was discovered that he was once placed on the Veterinarian’s List because of unsoundness. John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2019 In 2015, 66 trees were removed by city crews because of poor health or unsoundness. Debbie Arrington, sacbee.com, 5 May 2017 Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes near the Oroville Dam, because of the threat of imminent flooding due to structural unsoundness. Mercury News Readers, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsoundness
Noun
  • These payments, which are tax-free, are intended for veterans whose disabilities are connected to illnesses, injuries, or events that developed or were aggravated during active duty.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The process of a patient’s terminal or catastrophic illness is about building relationships with the medical team and managing expectations.
    Kat McGowan, NPR, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For the severely malnourished, simply starting to eat normal meals again can cause sickness—even death.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Within the mud, squalor and sickness of the contraband camps, so too came the casting away of the former body and an emergence of a fuller kind of selfhood.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Unsoundness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsoundness. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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