unapplied
Example Sentences
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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
They go or come, or lie still and rust, and a vast power for good is unapplied.
From Russell H. Conwell by Burr, Agnes Rush
But it still remains to him but an unapplied abstraction, a mere category of thought, a frame for the All.
From The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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
