undesired
adjective
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But even with this cultural adaptation, millions of tons of meat, organs, bone, and other undesired carcass fractions are forced into extremely low-value sectors, such as animal feed and the chemicals industry (gums, glues, etc.). — Liz Specht, WIRED, "Alt-Meat Trounces Animal Meat's Massive Inefficiencies," 19 Aug. 2019 One is from other researchers and environmentalists who worry that gene drives might become invasive, spreading unintentionally far in nature with undesired effects. — Quanta Magazine, "New Model Warns About CRISPR Gene Drives in the Wild," 16 Nov. 2017 Understanding these distinctions may feel superfluous at first, but choosing the wrong option can lead to an undesired look (with a high price tag). — Lucia Tonelli, ELLE Decor, "Drapes or Curtains? Why Choosing the Right Window Treatment Matters," 27 Mar. 2019 Following an inadequate response or an undesired song, his anger gets the better of him. — Steven Brykman, Ars Technica, "Douglas Adams was right: āGenuine people personalitiesā are coming to our gadgets," 22 Dec. 2018 Still, for those who see compulsory voting as the best way to fix turnout, low levels of enforcement seem to work just as well as high levels of enforcement, without the undesired effect of harming certain segments of the voting population. — Chayenne Polimedio, Vox, "Is voting a civic right or a civic duty?," 6 Nov. 2018 The blight of undesired software and prompts is all around us. — Vlad Savov, The Verge, "Isnāt it time we declared our independence from bloatware?," 4 July 2018 The pilot program had failedāor, possibly, had simply garnered too much undesired attention from Western players who were hungry for Halo on PC. — Julie Muncy, WIRED, "Saying Goodbye to the Fan Game That Recreated a Decade-Old Classic," 11 May 2018 With the endless number of hands on me on a regular basis, my body became a site of constant undesired touch. — Ericka Hart, Glamour, "Cancer May Have Changed My Breasts, But It Didn't Mess With My Sexy," 16 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'undesired.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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