unsanitary

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Recent Examples of unsanitary This action forced some migrants to wait in sometimes dangerous or unsanitary conditions in Mexico while a U.S. judge decided their case. Francesca Paris, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025 Both Geo and CoreCivic have been called out for alleged dangerous and unsanitary conditions inside their buildings. Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 29 Jan. 2025 Animal welfare organizations have long advocated for regulating purebred breeders, due to the many purebred pets that face neglect or abandonment after being bred in unsanitary conditions or for profit, something that Helen Woodward Animal Center echoes. Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025 In New York in the late 1920s, TB was more common among the poor who lived in crowded, often unsanitary conditions. Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unsanitary
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsanitary
Adjective
  • Chicagoans will have no one to hold accountable at the ballot box when the buses don’t arrive and rail stations are filthy and crime-ridden.
    Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The plastic waste China received was filthy, much of it too dirty to be cleaned, shredded, and turned into new plastic.
    Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The scene will portray oil workers getting in their trucks and heading to work, thus a dirty vehicle is a must.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2025
  • To understand the increasing flow of dirty stormwater into the system, Miami Waterkeeper and Miami-Dade County put together an audit of the stormwater systems among different municipalities in 2022.
    Courtney Heath, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • After signing autographs and posing for photos at O’Hare, Blagojevich landed in Denver and then hopped into a black SUV with two of his attorneys to report to the prison — with a camera-toting helicopter tracking his movement and the image streamed live on TV websites.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Attaching the Freyja to a Chair The Freyja is a black pad that measures 38 by 16 inches (HW) and has soft, flat padding arranged in polygonal panels.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Employees were observed to only sanitize their gloved hands after touching insanitary surfaces and then resumed touching RTE food and various food contact surfaces.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 12 Jan. 2025
  • In a civil complaint filed Sept. 27 in federal court, authorities allege that Rizo Lopez Foods violated the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act at the company’s facility in Modesto by manufacturing and distributing food products that have been prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Nearly two months have passed since a trade finalized the messy breakup between Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat, but the ugly ending to their time together will be a popular topic of conversation for the next few days.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2025
  • And yet, something about Careless People—beyond the court order, the messy PR spectacle, and Wynn-Williams’s formidable storytelling abilities—feels urgent, even necessary right now.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Why Talent Alone Won’t Cut It: The Role Of Engineering Standards And Best Practices Many companies mistakenly believe that hiring top-tier engineers automatically leads to high-quality software, but even the best engineers can’t thrive in a chaotic environment.
    Sebastian Avila, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Carter arrives as a fumbling, awkward, lovable med student—the audience surrogate in the chaotic and intense environment of a fictional Chicago emergency ward.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Unsanitary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsanitary. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.

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