untried

Example Sentences

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"Imposing an untried, untested layer of complexity and cost in the form of any new division of the Crown Court on our desperately underfunded system with its crumbling infrastructure is counter intuitive," she said.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025

But with the new administration’s more ambitious deportation aims, officials have begun entertaining untried alternatives.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025

Although well-travelled, he is largely untried on foreign policy.

From Reuters • Oct. 15, 2023

The $7.5 million comes from the infrastructure law Congress passed in 2021 and is going to scientists who will test untried methods of bat protection.

From Scientific American • Sep. 25, 2023

“I thought and hoped you could not mean it. You, so young, untried, and beautiful, Estella! Surely it is not in Nature.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens