uncaught

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Recent Examples of uncaught Women and children of the city are living in a state of terror, fearing that the fiend, if uncaught, will commit other outrages in this city. Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025 The Cubs carried a two-run lead into the sixth inning against the San Diego Padres, owners of the best record in baseball, when everything started to unravel after an uncaught fly ball. Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025 From demons to death cults, uncaught killers to unsolved disappearances, these genre films have proven that truth is not just stranger, but also scarier than fiction. Declan Gallagher and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024 Despite a massive daily cleanup operation that leaves the post-parade landscape remarkably clean, uncaught beads dangle from tree limbs like Spanish moss and get ground into the mud under the feet of passers-by. Kevin McGill, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2024 Fishing for coho has been excellent at times and biologists said 44,000 hatchery coho remained uncaught Monday from the quota of 84,000. Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 22 Aug. 2022 Families of victims featured in Kansas' card deck described to CNN a torturous wait for resolution, with some also fearing for their own safety as the killers remain uncaught. Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 7 Aug. 2022 That ratio can then be used to calculate the number that went uncaught in real life. The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncaught
Adjective
  • Valadao’s campaign says the votes show the congressman is an independent thinker, unbound by partisan ideology.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Tiwa Savage has stepped into her era of emotional depth—unbound and unbothered.
    Essence, Essence, 4 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • In contrast, post-liberals sharply distinguish the libertarian project (in all its forms) from genuine conservatism, arguing that the latter requires a commitment to social cohesion that is incompatible with unrestrained individualism.
    Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Police believe Lopez ran a stop sign and collided with another vehicle, and that her unrestrained 6‑month‑old son - later identified as Sebastian Reyes - was ejected.
    Doug Myers, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Another unconfined delegation that should be subject to judicial scrutiny is provided by the Civil Rights Restoration Act, passed by the Democrats over President Ronald Reagan’s veto, which established the government’s power to arbitrarily withhold funding from universities.
    George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2025
  • This accounted for just 3 percent of heating fires overall, but these led to more than 40 percent of fatalities, in part because portable heaters tend to be placed precisely where people live and sleep, and because the resulting fires are far more likely to be unconfined.
    Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Compared to Rich Table, RT Bistro is more intimate, with slightly brighter lighting, but an equally loose vibe.
    Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Borrowers, particularly private equity firms, increasingly turned to direct lenders offering faster execution and looser terms.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Grandaddy, unbeaten and untied and still heavyweight champion of the college football world.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The images featured Williams striking several poses while standing in knee-deep waters, wearing a yellow, one-piece swimsuit with a cutout in the center and an untied bowtie.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Teens will have unfettered ability to trade stocks, bonds and most ETFs and mutual funds.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
  • New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, a Democrat, accused the company of allowing predators unfettered access to underage users and connecting them with victims, often leading to real-world abuse and human trafficking.
    Reuters, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • This is the faint thermal afterglow from some 380,000 years after the big bang that was unleashed when the hot, foglike plasma that filled the early universe cooled and cleared as primordial atomic nuclei bonded with free electrons.
    Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Powerful seismic waves instantly toppled almost every building in the port city of Yokohama, sent a wall of water crashing across the coast of the island of Honshu, and unleashed mudslides that inundated fishing villages and buried inhabitants alive.
    Joshua Hammer, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Swift leaned into the soft romance of her outfit with an undone half-up hairstyle with her signature bangs brushed to the side for a dreamy effect.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The netting appeared to be unraveling at her sleeves and hemline, giving the gown a slightly more undone aesthetic.
    Lara Walsh, InStyle, 16 Mar. 2026

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“Uncaught.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncaught. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.

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