unexplored

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Recent Examples of unexplored Such painstaking work is par for the course in deep-sea biology, where entire ecosystems remain unexplored. Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2025 The water flows into the Yangtze River, the largest and longest in the country, but its upper reaches are relatively unexplored and understudied. Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 18 Aug. 2025 These unexplored altitudes are also where satellites burn up during their reentries and where the air pollution produced during their incineration accumulates. Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 16 Aug. 2025 Finding an entirely new variety of skyrmion in a quantum fluid could point to unexplored ways of creating and manipulating such structures. Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unexplored
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Adjective
  • The remains went undiscovered for four years — until 2022, when a local family purchased the unit’s contents at auction and opened the suitcases, PEOPLE previously reported.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • While not exactly undiscovered, Mendocino’s three-hour distance from San Francisco has long protected it from the development and gentrification creeping into Sonoma.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In spring the central walkway becomes a riot of flowering crab apples and bare shoulders (I had been told), but now the kiosks were shuttered, the trees skeletal, the paths plowed but untrodden.
    Julia Whelan Emma Kehlbeck Jeremy McLennan, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • The path from political relative to TV star is hardly untrodden, however.
    Jon Allsop, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025

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“Unexplored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unexplored. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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