unchecked

Example Sentences

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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

“One thing Devin is not is an unchecked autonomous system,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 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

Yaroslavsky supports increasing housing density near transit centers but said if left unchecked, the law could lead to more homes than can be accommodated by the city’s infrastructure.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Only then will the boat continue to run, unchecked, fluidly and gracefully between pulls of the oars.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown