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unsound

[uhn-sound] / ʌnˈsaʊnd /


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If the proof is unverified by humans and the pure math is shaky, the applied math built on it can be not only unsound but dangerous.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

He has said the city government has "grave concerns" about any deployment of troops, labelling the president's approach as "uncoordinated, uncalled for, and unsound".

From BBC Aug. 24, 2025

That assessment was technically accurate but fundamentally unsound.

From Slate Mar. 28, 2025

The surface pleasures of “Y2K” are outlandishly fun, but plot-wise, the film is structurally unsound.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 6, 2024

If the horse was unsound, he said, he would never let him out of his stall to work out.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells




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