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unsound

[uhn-sound] / ʌnˈsaʊnd /


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EagleBank also approved the client for a federally guaranteed loan even after a top lending officer ruled it was unsound.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

There were fears parts of the Grade II listed Big Mill in Leek could collapse after the building was assessed on Saturday as being structurally unsound.

From BBC Mar. 29, 2026

A charter school also can be denied renewal if it is fiscally unsound, but district staff concluded that, too, was not grounds for denial.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2025

That assessment was technically accurate but fundamentally unsound.

From Slate Mar. 28, 2025

When Bill told Francis that an idea was unsound or would lead nowhere, Francis could be sure that professional jealousy was not involved.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

At once the unsoundest and the most attractive argument is to be found in the deliberate idealization of particular ages, the thirteenth century in England, for example, or the age of the Antonines.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)




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