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as in untreated
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Recent Examples of unworked
Fragments of whale bones appeared at these inland sites in small and unworked pieces.
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Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2025
During the summer solstice, the sun rises above the Heel Stone, a large, unworked sarsen standing about 250 feet from the center of the monument’s stone circle.
—Hannah Edgar, ARTnews.com, 26 Feb. 2025
These fortresses tended to take advantage of features like gorges and hilltops for natural defenses, supplementing those with walls of unworked boulders stacked without mortar.
—Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2025
Advertisement The overtime probe that led to Peniche’s phone being searched first became public in 2019, when CHP Southern Division Chief Mark Garrett held a press conference alleging dozens of officers had bilked the agency for unworked hours.
—Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
Police have launched an international hunt for the thieves and their loot, consisting of 483 Celtic coins and a lump of unworked gold that were discovered during an archeological dig near the present-day town of Manching in 1999.
—Frank Jordans, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2022
That money went to 77 different employees who together claimed more than 7,200 hours of unworked overtime pay.
—Bob Christie, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2021
Homes are made of unworked stone; sheep and goats are quartered indoors.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2025
During the summer solstice, the sun rises above the Heel Stone, a large, unworked sarsen standing about 250 feet from the center of the monument’s stone circle.
—Hannah Edgar, ARTnews.com, 26 Feb. 2025
These fortresses tended to take advantage of features like gorges and hilltops for natural defenses, supplementing those with walls of unworked boulders stacked without mortar.
—Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2025
Advertisement The overtime probe that led to Peniche’s phone being searched first became public in 2019, when CHP Southern Division Chief Mark Garrett held a press conference alleging dozens of officers had bilked the agency for unworked hours.
—Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
Police have launched an international hunt for the thieves and their loot, consisting of 483 Celtic coins and a lump of unworked gold that were discovered during an archeological dig near the present-day town of Manching in 1999.
—Frank Jordans, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2022
That money went to 77 different employees who together claimed more than 7,200 hours of unworked overtime pay.
—Bob Christie, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2021
Homes are made of unworked stone; sheep and goats are quartered indoors.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unworked
Adjective
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Whispers have long circulated among art collectors that a third series of Christophers exists unfinished, which could potentially go for millions if they were ever completed and put on the market.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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Painful memories like his relationship with Christopher, which left Julian rich but scarred; his work began to suffer along with their romance, to the point that the last eight pieces of his signature series have remained unfinished in a dusty corner of his home for the last 30 years.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The air quality was thick and green, with notes of juniper and untreated wood.—
Fran Tirado,
Them.,
4 Sep. 2025
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While people with Pontiac fever can often recover without specific treatment, untreated Legionnaires’ is extremely serious and can be fatal.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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His unpolished demeanor and inability to grasp the issues presented a challenge.—
Kimberly Ross,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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In typical athlete origin story fashion, the first half of the Christy trailer depicts the unpolished, brunette Sweeney as real-life champion Christy Salters Martin slugging it out in practice, training on a beach, and hugging her supportive team.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Another group of men was assigned to do something very similar, except in this case the ultraprocessed and unprocessed diets were designed to be high in calories.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Sep. 2025
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Your Energy Gets a Boost Thanks to its complex carbohydrates, unprocessed corn gives your body long-lasting energy without the crashes caused by refined or sweetened corn products.8 3.—
Christopher Bergland,
Verywell Health,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Andre Iguodala put it in more cosmic terms, after Thursday night’s inartistic but somewhat encouraging 128-112 win over the Lakers in the final regular-season home game.—
Scott Ostler,
San Francisco Chronicle,
7 Apr. 2022
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Excavations of the burial chamber also found untouched ancient ceramic artifacts, such as vases, jars, lamps and plates, archaeologists said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
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After driving his team to the 1-yard line, Fields fooled the entire Steelers defense on a fourth down, faking a handoff and then high-stepping into the end zone untouched to take a 32-31 lead.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Photo-illustration by Newsweek/Getty/Canva JPMorgan Chase saw one of the biggest jumps in raw numbers, with approvals climbing from 1,719 to 2,440, an increase of 721.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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Adopt zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) and multiparty computation (MPC) to validate identity attributes without exposing the raw data, making synthetic identity theft less profitable.—
Rohan Pinto,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Unworked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unworked. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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