unapplied

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It's in the pure or unapplied kind of realm of the sciences that is just exploratory.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2025

Largely ignored, as a result, is the daring and unapplied "basic" research on which such teams as A.T.&T.'s Bell Laboratories thrive.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is my story," continued Slow-toes, "and its application is for the wise:— 'Sentences of studied wisdom, nought avail they unapplied; Though the blind man hold a lantern, yet his footsteps stray aside.'

From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Arnold, Edwin, Sir

The conception seems to have been to the people mostly an unapplied abstraction, too vast and remote to become prominent in their speculation or influential in their faith.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

The “power of the Lord” had not been absent; but it had remained unapplied.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis