as in unsullied
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Recent Examples of untainted
The White House is untainted by scandal, the incumbent party is charismatic.
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Natalie Neysa Alund, The Courier-Journal, 8 Nov. 2024
For every former Baathist running ISIS, there were multiple other veteran jihadists untainted by any association with Saddam.
—Graeme Wood, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
No scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Celebrated auteur Andrea Arnold creates a unique visual exploration of a fractured world seen through a child’s untainted gaze.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
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Natalie Neysa Alund, The Courier-Journal, 8 Nov. 2024
For every former Baathist running ISIS, there were multiple other veteran jihadists untainted by any association with Saddam.
—Graeme Wood, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
No scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Celebrated auteur Andrea Arnold creates a unique visual exploration of a fractured world seen through a child’s untainted gaze.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for untainted
Adjective
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But the French upper class, either idealists or simply oblivious, believed their beautiful capital would remain unsullied.—
Ruth Peltason,
airmail.news,
24 Aug. 2024
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Though this was at a time when homosexuality was still widely frowned upon, the pair managed to break through on pure, unsullied vision.—
Michael Cuby,
Them,
29 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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The actual area requiring demining is certain to be much smaller—thirteen thousand five hundred square miles have already been cleared or deemed uncontaminated—but proving that this land is safe will still require an enormous amount of time and resources.—
Michael Holtz,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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Meaning, no water source, no matter how remote, can be guaranteed to be pristine or totally uncontaminated.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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James knocked the ball down and the Eagles delivered their first unblemished record, another distinguishing mark in a breathtaking season.—
Troy Renck,
The Denver Post,
7 Dec. 2024
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Five teams were able to keep their records unblemished through the first three games of the season.—
Fox News Staff,
Fox News,
25 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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Multigenerational trips where families rent houses are popular here, too, and the biggest nightlife activity is stargazing under the unpolluted sky and looking for fiddler crabs on the beach.—
Trudy Haywood Saunders,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Mar. 2024
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In a natural, unpolluted environment hawkmoths might fly 80 kilometers in a night and be able to home in on flowers from kilometers away.—
Popular Science,
Popular Science,
8 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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The property is adjacent to the unspoiled Torre Salsa Nature Reserve, featuring natural dunes and white sand beaches, which can be reached in just 5 minutes via a footpath from the property.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Largely undeveloped with no grocery stores, streetlights, or sidewalks, Daufuskie is known for its unspoiled beaches, mystical marshlands, and rich Gullah culture.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Even as President Donald Trump recently obliterated the federal government’s support for DEI, his executive order leaves academic instruction untouched.—
Matt Beienburg,
National Review,
25 Jan. 2025
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The 23-year-old ballet teacher and server described a ghost town of a city sprinkled with excited children seeing snow for the first time, making snowmen and walking in the middle of roads untouched by cars.—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But the model trained on unaltered English text learned much faster and performed better at the end than all the others, with one exception: The model trained on word hop, which replaces certain verb suffixes with special characters four words away, fared approximately as well.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Jan. 2025
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Darnold’s diligence and accountability raised expectations and refined an approach that is unaltered, regardless of last Sunday’s result against the Detroit Lions.—
Alec Lewis,
The Athletic,
9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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For unimpaired drivers, the seat belt is the best defense against a drunk driver, according to the release.—
River Valley Democrat-Gazette,
arkansasonline.com,
11 Dec. 2024
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His body was crippled by gout but his wisdom and judgment were unimpaired.—
Martin Dyckman,
Sun Sentinel,
23 Feb. 2024
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“Untainted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untainted. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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