How to Use unaligned in a Sentence

unaligned

adjective
  • And in the seven days between the boy’s fall and that appointment, according to the suit, Devin’s left thigh bone had become unaligned.
    oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The three of them don’t make many sequels and remain unaligned with any superhero roster.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • High home prices unaligned with normal incomes and high mortgage rates.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Labor and the Conservatives have ruled out ending oil and gas exploration - a demand of the unaligned Greens.
    Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
  • When the current stops, the particles flip back to their unaligned positions, returning the glass to transparency.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 26 Oct. 2019
  • But the truth about vulnerable, unaligned networks exists whether AI reveals it or not.
    Renee Tarun, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • With the support of the Greens’ 11 senators, the government only needs the backing of two unaligned or minor party senators to get the reforms through the upper chamber.
    Rod McGuirk, ajc, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Shut your mouth, don’t have any kind of opinion or anything remotely unaligned with the country music industry or you will be canceled.
    Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Especially as there is much more spotlight on the boardroom these days - the ‘G’ in ESG is a key component of this, involving many unaligned stakeholders.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • Australian philosopher Toby Ord puts the risk of an existential catastrophe from unaligned AI at 1 in 10 over the next century.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2022
  • All eyes are on Avigdor Liberman, the leader of an unaligned ultranationalist party that now holds the balance of power.
    New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • When a magnetized nail is in a changing magnetic field, the domains can become unaligned and thus unmagnetized.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The main driver of teen sleep deficiency is the early start times of U.S. high schools, which are totally unaligned with teens’ natural circadian rhythms.
    Rachel Widome and Aaron Berger, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Despite some mutual overlap in their vision for Twitter, the two sides seemed wholly unaligned in their approach to reforming the microblogging service.
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Even though more people subscribe to the (pro-vaccination) blue viewpoint than to the (anti-vaccination) red, the researchers found the red partisans have both created more clusters and forged more links with the unaligned green clusters.
    Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2020
  • If your prosthetic is slipping around due to sweat, those sensors might end up unaligned with their intended placements, compromising your function.
    Chloé Valentine Toscano, Allure, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The bridge was closed Friday afternoon after construction crews found lateral beams that were unaligned while removing a temporary bracing that was placed to pour concrete.
    The Courier-Journal, 13 Mar. 2024
  • After the first round, anyone whose first-choice candidate received less than 15 percent of the caucus vote have to choose another candidate, try to join forces to muster enough support to a nonviable candidate or remain unaligned.
    Peter Libbey, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
  • That is not enough to claim a constitutional majority of 226 deputies, in part because only half the parliament is elected on party slates; the other half consists of unaligned candidates.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
  • To do this work, KPMG has deployed bots that assess client financial data and controls, searching for particular financial figures that are out of balance or in some way unaligned.
    Insights Team, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The artist sometimes varies his formula, if only slightly, by adding color or by breaking the lines into columns of segments that remain parallel but are vertically unaligned.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Two black holes with such an alignment would possess more rotational energy than an unaligned pair, and thus require ever-so-slightly more time to coalesce together in the final moments of their merger.
    Lee Billings, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
  • Healthcare is plagued by siloed information, unaligned stakeholders, and distrust—all problems that networked platforms are uniquely positioned to solve.
    Seth Joseph, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • If Labor got all 12 senators from the minor Greens party to support the target, the government would only need to persuade one of six remaining independent or unaligned legislators to reach a majority.
    Rod McGuirk, ajc, 2 July 2022
  • While not clearly defined, the proposal involved forming a coalition of other similarly unaligned countries to mediate.
    David Shortell, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
  • These confederations organized themselves for global war and competed for advantage in the uncommitted, unaligned world, much of it newly freed by the collapse of European colonialism.
    Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
  • Six Democrats, 16 Republicans, two libertarians and 24 unaligned or independent candidates are smushed together on the same single-page ballot, which Alaskans need to postmark by Saturday.
    Dan Zak, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
  • The two unaligned businesses became more focused, dropped the discount associated with being one entity, and pursued their expertise with separate management and business lines.
    Jim Osman, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Demographics are not trending in Republicans’ favor and a generation reset of politics should favor those unaligned with either major party but yearning for a pragmatic posture to the nation’s challenges.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Some analysts and lawmakers say the West’s efforts have been frustrated by uncooperative governments unaligned with Washington, limited resources and sophisticated evasion strategies that have evolved over two decades of Western sanctions regimes.
    Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023

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