unascertained
Example Sentences
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Area coroner Rose Farmer said the cause of death was unascertained, pending toxicology.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
Alphonsine's medical cause of death was proposed as pneumonia while her daughter's was "unascertained", pathologist Dr Stuart Hamilton said in evidence.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025
When cross-examined by Mr Gordon's lawyer, John Femi-Ola KC put to the pathologist that it was "important not to guess" about possible causes of death since the pathological cause of death was unascertained.
From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024
Dr Nat Cary said their baby could have died from the cold or co-sleeping, but the "formal pathological cause of death was recorded as unascertained".
From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024
The half, or more than half, of such events, must however necessarily happen by the averages of chances; and this unascertained and unsuspected coincidence has from age to age countenanced and confirmed the delusion.
From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Richard Phillips
