How to Use unregulated in a Sentence

unregulated

adjective
  • In New York, the state took years to issue licenses and left a void that spurred an influx of unregulated stores.
    Haley Bemiller, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Such risks are rife in the industry, which remains largely unregulated in the U.S. and in many markets around the world.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The markets for this fuel source are largely unregulated, with prices tracking to the cost of crude oil.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The internet as a whole is much more free and unregulated.
    Donie O'Sullivan and Richa Naik, CNN, 6 Sep. 2022
  • In the unregulated market, with none of that loss in profit, the weed bodega is a potential gold mine.
    Curbed, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The unregulated bridges are typically those with a span of less than 20 feet.
    Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 30 June 2023
  • Experts say science doesn't back the ice hack diet up and that the supplement at the heart of the diet is both unregulated and unproven.
    Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
  • It’s the still mostly-unregulated NIL space that Saban is saying should have more of the parity.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 17 May 2022
  • Part of the problem is that the mental health app market is wildly unregulated.
    WIRED, 1 Oct. 2022
  • If the guard is employed by the store, they likely are unlicensed and unregulated.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2023
  • And the sector is largely unregulated, leaving it wide open to scams.
    Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Listen to a Post Reports episode about the unregulated industry of deep-sea tourism.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The rapid growth of this nascent technology has outpaced the law, and AI has remained largely unregulated.
    Theara Coleman, The Week, 26 July 2023
  • Latest news on weight loss drugs The high price of Ozempic is pushing many to unregulated, copycat drugs for weight loss Ozempic shortages?
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The lawsuit also alleges that an unregulated and unsafe water system is at least in part to blame for the presence of the brain-eating amoeba.
    Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Much of what China does, however, is legal — or, on the open seas at least, largely unregulated.
    Claire Fu, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The Department of Justice proposed new rules Thursday to crack down on unregulated firearm sales.
    USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Ask bankers if unregulated lending by a competitor is good for them.
    Alondra Nelson, Foreign Affairs, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Critics of voluntary market carbon credits point to the fact that the market is unregulated and opaque.
    Russell Nichols, Time, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The primary culprits in the wood duck decline were unregulated hunting and habitat loss.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Parents and other adults shared their fear for children who spend so much time on an unregulated internet.
    Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Workers at small, unregulated mines like Ms. Forero, who still use dynamite sticks to open tunnels, have a slim chance of finding the emeralds that can change someone’s destiny.
    Astrid Suárez, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
  • In rural Arizona, groundwater is largely unregulated; whoever has the money can drill a well and lay claim to the water.
    Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2023
  • However, there have been growing warnings that the unregulated growth of AI could have dire consequences.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Birth tourism, as an unregulated industry, puts pregnant mothers at risk and exploits the people working in it.
    Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • So click by click, a largely unregulated army of humans is transforming the raw data into AI feedstock.
    Regine Cabato, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But when it’s used in an unregulated setting or manufactured illegally, a tiny amount – 2 milligrams, for instance, or an amount that can fit on the tip of a pen – can kill someone.
    al, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Up to four fifths of crypto trading on unregulated crypto exchanges may be phony, new research shows.
    Simon Constable, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • And then there’s a new medium that has risen that is unregulated and unmediated: social media.
    Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2022
  • This nearly absolute and unregulated power over human lives eventually led to the southern region of the US becoming one of the leading economies in the world.
    Essence, 1 Sep. 2022

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