How to Use unmediated in a Sentence
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As unmediated as Wiseman’s footage can feel, themes emerge over time.
—New York Times, 15 Dec. 2020
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Libby narrating every step of her rise and fall is a neat trick, but subtracts chances for Danes to show us who Rachel is on her own terms, unmediated.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
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Still, several of the up-and-coming treatments — many of them not new at all — shift our focus from unmediated pill popping.
—Maggie Jones, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
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As Trump approached the microphone in the lobby of Trump Tower on Tuesday, aides winced at the prospect of an unmediated president.
—Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
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With no frills or flourishes, the UK pop artist sings over a relaxed arrangement that keeps you focused on the unmediated message in her lyrics.
—Tara Aquino, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2022
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Its music seems somehow to bypass my ears and enter my heart and psyche unmediated.
—Matthew Aucoin, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
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His perspective seems unmediated by the endless scroll of social feeds.
—Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
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This unmediated feeling was almost too intense to bear.
—Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
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The reverent score and the interplay between unmediated color footage and black-and-white security-camera footage will give you the chills, as will some of the choreography.
—Isaac Schorr, National Review, 26 Dec. 2020
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And then there’s a new medium that has risen that is unregulated and unmediated: social media.
—Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2022
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Szyk’s art spoke with unmediated passion and moral clarity.
—Tad Taube, The Mercury News, 15 May 2017
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Social media complicated the situation by allowing the videos to loop over and over again, raw and unmediated.
—Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2021
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It’s driven by an impulse to pare down and seek direct, unmediated experiences.
—Kyle Chayka, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2021
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Monetization of microblogging proved to be a challenge, so the platform evolved in steps to its current model of unmediated broadcast to a mass audience.
—Roger McNamee, Time, 18 Nov. 2022
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The older pieces invited such unmediated sounds; newer works required them.
—Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2019
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Rawley, a chow mix in Oakland, California, can no longer handle it unmediated.
—Caitlin Gibson, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
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The rise of social media allowed people to talk about politics in an unmediated way, reading and saying things that would never have been seen on broadcast television or read in newspapers.
—The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
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Inside that man's head is the memory of another world: A lawn, a river, long parentless afternoons, colors, unmediated life.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 27 May 2021
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Visiting new and old favorites will then be as safe, as unmediated, and as inclusive as possible, but only with continued effort on the part of our museum leaders.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
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No language, no false impressions, no confusion, just the unmediated pleasure of presence and the everyday faith of some sort of understanding passing between them.
—David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
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Twitter is a platform for unmediated broadcasting to roughly a quarter billion active users.
—Roger McNamee, Time, 19 Dec. 2022
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The spread of literacy in the early modern West was driven by people’s desire to read God’s word for themselves, to be empowered by an experience of unmediated connection.
—Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2022
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The result is an unmediated honest expression, lightly fruity, earthy and delicious.
—New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
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Going to museums is one of the last sources of unmediated pleasure for ordinary people: there need not be guides, security barriers, or overly watchful guards.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
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Movies can’t — or at least typically don’t — convey the unmediated, vivid wretchedness of life, and stage actors and theater audiences have a different pact than screen actors and at-home or cinema audiences.
—Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
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Educated audiences complain, after the release of one of these projects, that there is a truer reality of slavery to be exposed, one that is unmediated and unvarnished—as if the mediation and the varnish are not themselves a reveal.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 May 2021
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Rewatching the show after 25 years was an oddly unmediated, even moving experience, like dreaming or getting stoned.
—Gabriel Rom, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
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To create this illusion of unmediated reality, Kiarostami employed a 12-person special effects team and more than half a dozen animal wranglers.
—Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 6 Feb. 2018
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But exactly what separates real writers from mere critics and journalists is the unmediated quality of their obsessions, a willingness, or a readiness, to look ridiculous in pursuit of a passion.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2019
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Contact with violence through any media can lead to what is called vicarious traumatization — and may, for some people, be more upsetting than an unmediated experience.
—Teddy Wayne, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2016
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