unaccountable

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One important proposal: Let parents who choose to expose their wannabe-elite athlete children to unaccountable authority figures, in pursuit of college athletic scholarships and Olympic glory, do so on their own dime.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

Yet here, a single unaccountable administrator effectively outlawed an entire way of life for responsible therapists, guides and small businesses in Hawaii.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

They’re not wildly unaccountable, they are a part of the government.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025

“It creates an entirely unaccountable system of unilateral authority in the hands of individual officers to make incredibly weighty choices.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025

It is in the abrupt, unaccountable aggregation of random notions, intuitions, known in science as good ideas, that the high points are made.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas