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unsound

[uhn-sound] / ʌnˈsaʊnd /


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If the proof is unverified by humans and the pure math is shaky, the applied math built on it can be not only unsound but dangerous.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

A charter school also can be denied renewal if it is fiscally unsound, but district staff concluded that, too, was not grounds for denial.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2025

That assessment was technically accurate but fundamentally unsound.

From Slate Mar. 28, 2025

It said another team asked to review the recommendations of Amazon's internal safety study had found that the methodology was "unsound".

From BBC Dec. 16, 2024

When Bill told Francis that an idea was unsound or would lead nowhere, Francis could be sure that professional jealousy was not involved.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

At once the unsoundest and the most attractive argument is to be found in the deliberate idealization of particular ages, the thirteenth century in England, for example, or the age of the Antonines.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells




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