untried

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Recent Examples of untried While some people close to the campaign think that firing Mr. Powell could be on the table again, others have warned that doing so would be legally untried and open to a court challenge. Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 23 May 2024 But before we get started, think of the falsely anointed, all the future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterbacks in this NFL Draft — despite being the untried and untested, football players being judged and overanalyzed when not actually playing football. Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024 But a sudden switch to a new, untried candidate would almost surely cause voters to see the the party as chaotic, Democratic pollster Natalie Jackson wrote this week. David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024 Along with that jerk pork, there’s a whole chicken that leaves few techniques untried. Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for untried 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untried
Adjective
  • More:Duggan's independent gubernatorial run is rare and untested.
    Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 24 Dec. 2024
  • In just two short weeks, the 54-year-old Assad family dynasty fell to a collection of rebel fighters who were mostly untested, relatively poorly equipped, and often distrustful of one another.
    Daniel Markind, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The Rangers’ hunt for a new in-market TV partnership comes as other would-be defectors have returned to the RSN fold.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 15 Jan. 2025
  • With Trump, everything is a transaction, and for his would-be suitors—not just Israel, but also Hamas’s sponsors in Qatar—the Gaza cease-fire is a down payment.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Whether the Red Wings can keep this streak going hinges on Detroit’s ability to handle this early success under new coach Todd McLellan.
    Max Bultman, The Athletic, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Big names like The Weeknd, Lady Gaga and Bad Bunny have yet to announce new tours despite having early 2025 drops.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Other human foods that cats can eat unseasoned and without bones are salmon, chicken, turkey, beef, organ meat, shrimp, lamb, pork and canned tuna in spring water only.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Afghanistan’s border police is largely an institutional fiction—incompletely trained, unseasoned, and unsustainable.
    George Gavrilis, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015
Adjective
  • On a year-on-year basis, pork and fresh vegetable prices remain elevated, climbing 12.5%.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The big picture: Four of the biggest blazes remained zero percent contained during low relative humidity and high winds that were beginning to weaken on Wednesday evening, though fresh spot fires ignited and a new blaze in the Hollywood Hills prompted fresh mandatory evacuation orders.
    Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Each group is coded by a color to indicate difficulty: yellow for the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple for more challenging sets.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
  • For example, previous mockups using the colors red, yellow and green to call out different levels did not make a statistically significant difference in helping people interpret the box.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2025

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“Untried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untried. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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