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unsound

[uhn-saund] / ʌnˈsaʊnd /


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The settlement follows a December 2024 cease-and-desist order from US regulators that hit BofA for "unsafe or unsound practices," including failure to timely file suspicious activity reports.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Long before Oz entered politics, for example, he’d been discredited for dispensing a vast array of scientifically unsound medical advice on “The Dr. Oz Show,” which Winfrey’s Harpo Productions co-produced.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

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

His stubby legs were a study in unsound construction, with squarish, asymmetrical “baseball glove” knees that didn’t quite straighten all the way, leaving him in a permanent semicrouch.

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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