as in undisciplined
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Recent Examples of unpunished
No selfish deed goes unpunished in this lakeside refuge.
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Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 28 Dec. 2024
Unfortunately, no good deed goes unpunished, and the free Direct File program is in the crosshairs of GOP lawmakers who are pushing the new Trump administration to take action against it.
—New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2025
Creating an outside militia that can interfere with law enforcement, seeking mass deportations, allowing assaults on police, letting crimes go unpunished and seeking retribution against your opponents.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2025
The international community has long condemned settler violence which has increased in recent years and gone mostly unpunished.
—Mostafa Salem, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
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Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 28 Dec. 2024
Unfortunately, no good deed goes unpunished, and the free Direct File program is in the crosshairs of GOP lawmakers who are pushing the new Trump administration to take action against it.
—New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2025
Creating an outside militia that can interfere with law enforcement, seeking mass deportations, allowing assaults on police, letting crimes go unpunished and seeking retribution against your opponents.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2025
The international community has long condemned settler violence which has increased in recent years and gone mostly unpunished.
—Mostafa Salem, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpunished
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While guidance documents are incorporated in Trump’s new review-and-termination order—yet another important innovation—these have historically remained undisciplined and uncatalogued until Trump’s own E.O. 13891 of 2019 generated the makings of an inventory.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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Basketball example: In a playoff game, the head coach decides to bench his young star player in the fourth quarter after an undisciplined outburst on the court.—
Brent Dykes,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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Sepsis is a condition that leads to uncontrolled inflammation in the body and sometimes organ failure.—
Adrianna Rodriguez,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2025
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And the risk of loss that comes with uncontrolled communications is profound.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2025
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Even from beyond the grave, that man proves to be incorrigible in his audacity.—
Ayan Artan,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2025
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Bridget’s old on-again, off-again boss/beau Daniel Cleaver (played by the gloriously incorrigible Hugh Grant) drifts in and out of the story.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
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Inna, notoriously protective of her husband’s legacy, worked with a translator and editors on a few chapters of the book but then retreated into obstinate silence.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2025
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Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin were obstinate, colorful negotiators.—
Arthur House,
Hartford Courant,
30 Dec. 2024
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Despite growing consternation and concern expressed by economists and CEOs, Trump administration officials have been stubborn in defending its trade policies.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
9 Apr. 2025
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Ocasio-Cortez might have a good shot at cracking that stubborn nut.—
Laura Washington,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr. 2025
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Among the intransigent nobles is Gawain’s own father, and Gawain sides with Arthur to defeat him.—
Alan Yuhas,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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To some, that may sound like Sweeney taking an intransigent approach to a pillar of the organization for a decade and a half.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
11 Mar. 2025
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Generations of design successors have insisted that pie charts are difficult to read and even amount to optical informatic illusions, but we are still stuck with them.—
Mara Mills,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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There are very big match-ups being played week in and week out in what is one of the most difficult leagues to play in on the planet, this means the big contenders will drop points more often than in some other leagues.—
Joseph O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Whatever regime emerges could well be even more radical and obdurate.—
Bloomberg Opinion,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
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Advertisement None of that has immunized the lowly smelt from its most obdurate enemy: partisan folly.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Unpunished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpunished. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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