unchecked

Example Sentences

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Reporter Jon Emont traveled to an area off the southeast coast of Malaysia where ships in the so-called shadow fleet move through largely unchecked.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

There will be searching questions about how such an audacious crime could have gone unnoticed and unchecked for more than a decade, and vindication for the detectives who decided they needed that tent.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

She said Airbnb, as a tech example, has gone unchecked despite causing “a lot of the removal of housing stock.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Both cast debt as a bogeyman turning capitalism into an extraction device that, left unchecked or unwisely channeled, can take everything from any of us.

From Salon • May 4, 2026

Someday soon his new palace will look like this one, and the seas will rage unchecked.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan