unexecuted

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"It may not be the best plan, but a plan executed vigorously is better than the best unexecuted plan in the world."

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2022

Though Lebanon denied that Hassan was in the country and the warrant went unexecuted, it was a shot across the bow.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022

According to a document Matthesen prepared for her lawyers in October of 2006, Ford’s unexecuted will specified that he did not want his family to get his estate.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2019

“Two arrest warrants against Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf Al-Werfalli remain unexecuted more than two years since the first warrant was issued,” she said.

From The Guardian • Nov. 6, 2019

But the captains did not properly obey their chief: orders which had been planned and issued remained unexecuted: the fire-ships, which were intended to break through the defences of the enemy, were ill-managed.

From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Ranke, Leopold von