as in rampant
showing no signs of being under control
unchecked corruption in the state's prison system
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Recent Examples of unchecked
All of those boxes remain unchecked after Week 1.
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Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
The study predicts sugar consumption nationwide could increase by nearly 3 grams a day by 2095, if planet-warming pollution continues unchecked, with vulnerable groups at highest risk.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
Right now, under the current leadership in our city, gangs still control our streets, human trafficking goes unchecked and drugs flow through here like the Mississippi River.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
Aster is obsessed with people’s unchecked power to shame others online, whether with the truth or with unfair fabrications.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
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Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
The study predicts sugar consumption nationwide could increase by nearly 3 grams a day by 2095, if planet-warming pollution continues unchecked, with vulnerable groups at highest risk.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
Right now, under the current leadership in our city, gangs still control our streets, human trafficking goes unchecked and drugs flow through here like the Mississippi River.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
Aster is obsessed with people’s unchecked power to shame others online, whether with the truth or with unfair fabrications.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unchecked
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These sanctions, the US claims, are meant to target rampant corruption and human rights abuses in the country, as well as its leaders’ undermining of democracy.—
Andrew Raine,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
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Speculation of a breakup is rampant but the news is not yet public.—
Caleb Hammond,
IndieWire,
4 Sep. 2025
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Reinforce Change Management With Staged Rollouts As with any outage, Pennsylvania’s 911 failure highlighted how uncontrolled changes—whether in hardware, software or configurations—can disrupt critical systems.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Baxdrostat, an experimental medicine made by AstraZeneca, showed promise in treating people with uncontrolled or resistant high blood pressure in a recent trial.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Unchecked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unchecked. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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