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as in unfinished
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as in untreated
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Recent Examples of unworked
During the summer solstice, the sun rises above the Heel Stone, a large, unworked sarsen standing about 250 feet from the center of the monument’s stone circle.
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Hannah Edgar, ARTnews.com, 26 Feb. 2025
These fortresses tended to take advantage of features like gorges and hilltops for natural defenses, supplementing those with walls of unworked boulders stacked without mortar.
—Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2025
Advertisement The overtime probe that led to Peniche’s phone being searched first became public in 2019, when CHP Southern Division Chief Mark Garrett held a press conference alleging dozens of officers had bilked the agency for unworked hours.
—Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
Homes are made of unworked stone; sheep and goats are quartered indoors.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
Built from unworked limestone boulders and rocks, the basic arch, though never conclusively dated, may be from the 14th century B.C. 20.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2016
Police have launched an international hunt for the thieves and their loot, consisting of 483 Celtic coins and a lump of unworked gold that were discovered during an archeological dig near the present-day town of Manching in 1999.
—Frank Jordans, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2022
That money went to 77 different employees who together claimed more than 7,200 hours of unworked overtime pay.
—Bob Christie, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2021
The new support program unveiled last week requires employees to work at least 20% of their hours to receive aid, and their firms are on the hook to make a 5% contribution for unworked time.
—David Goodman, Bloomberg.com, 31 Oct. 2020
Hannah Edgar, ARTnews.com, 26 Feb. 2025
These fortresses tended to take advantage of features like gorges and hilltops for natural defenses, supplementing those with walls of unworked boulders stacked without mortar.
—Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2025
Advertisement The overtime probe that led to Peniche’s phone being searched first became public in 2019, when CHP Southern Division Chief Mark Garrett held a press conference alleging dozens of officers had bilked the agency for unworked hours.
—Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
Homes are made of unworked stone; sheep and goats are quartered indoors.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
Built from unworked limestone boulders and rocks, the basic arch, though never conclusively dated, may be from the 14th century B.C. 20.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2016
Police have launched an international hunt for the thieves and their loot, consisting of 483 Celtic coins and a lump of unworked gold that were discovered during an archeological dig near the present-day town of Manching in 1999.
—Frank Jordans, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2022
That money went to 77 different employees who together claimed more than 7,200 hours of unworked overtime pay.
—Bob Christie, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2021
The new support program unveiled last week requires employees to work at least 20% of their hours to receive aid, and their firms are on the hook to make a 5% contribution for unworked time.
—David Goodman, Bloomberg.com, 31 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unworked
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The album, which the rapper formerly known as Kanye West had teased on Tuesday (March 18) as unfinished and partially vocalized through AI technology, takes a bold and experimental approach to his artistry.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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By enlisting a third party like Brody to finish an unfinished project, the construction lender can perhaps avoid taking the hit that would otherwise result from the bad condition of the project and the fact that not too many buyers have the appetite to clean up such messes.—
Joshua Stein,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Left untreated, most people who develop active TB will die of the disease.—
John Green,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2025
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If left untreated, fibrosis can progress to cirrhosis, which can lead to permanent liver damage and liver failure.—
Suchandrima Bhowmik,
Health,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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And overall, many of the top-20-caliber players are unpolished prospects who will be drafted more for potential than production.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2025
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As for the love story at the heart of things, real-life singer-songwriters Koerner and Varga, both making their movie debuts, inhabit their roles with unpolished sincerity, if not technical skill.—
Joe Leydon,
Variety,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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So if all seven of the unprocessed contracts have modest cap hits (likely), then Miami would be left with $14 million to $15 million in cap space.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
20 Mar. 2025
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Rao compared making sense of data to making cookies—free-text clinical notes aren't flour, but unprocessed wheat.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Shear can find the punchline in a half-empty box of Yoo-hoo, collected on the way out of a disappointing romantic encounter, or the comic tension in a glass of rice pudding going untouched on a table during an awkward conversation.—
Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Mar. 2025
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In an interactive display, viewers had the choice to turn on the blender, thereby killing the fish or leave it untouched.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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Ahead of the match, Sabalenka said the loss in Australia was still fresh and raw in her mind.—
Matthew Futterman,
The Athletic,
15 Mar. 2025
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Android will never be as close to the silicon as iOS, but in the Pixel 10 family, Google aims to shorten that distance to find more practical performance over raw numbers.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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“Unworked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unworked. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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