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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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Dante’s Divine Comedy almost joined the ranks of the great unfinished poems in literary history.—
Eric Bulson,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2026
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Their second feature is based on an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca and revolves around the interconnected stories of three men across three different eras.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
1 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Attorneys point to warnings from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, a 2022 state audit and prior deaths at Las Colinas involving untreated withdrawal, including those of Elisa Serna in 2019 and Vianna Granillo in 2022.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Jan. 2026
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Made of untreated cedar, the house has a 3-inch entrance hole and interior dimensions ideal for these larger birds.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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They are unpolished, unethereal and take a perhaps more head-on approach than audiences are used to seeing.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
19 Dec. 2025
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There was the campus, red brick and lush grass, an offbeat blend of 20th-century construction and New England charm that felt unpolished in the best way.—
Lucy Feldman,
Time,
17 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Thousands of former service members will be relieved of debts that accrued due to unprocessed copayments for community care.—
Sam Stevenson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Nov. 2025
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Evidence suggests that including lean, unprocessed chicken such as chicken breast may support weight management and reduce risk factors associated with diabetes and heart disease.—
Lindsey DeSoto,
Health,
13 Nov. 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
Adjective
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In those cases, most of what borrowers send to their credit card companies gets swallowed up by interest charges, leaving the actual debt largely untouched.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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East Caicos, one of the largest uninhabited islands in the Caribbean, felt untouched.—
Henry Wismayer,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Here’s an actor of quiet ambition, fire and energy who every so often unleashes a raw power that infuses a character with life and truth.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
6 Jan. 2026
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Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (Celeste and Jesse Forever) provide the raw, revelatory, and surprisingly funny screenplay, while the director and her illustrious co-stars let rip with reckless abandon.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Unworked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unworked. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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