unexamined
adjective
un·ex·am·ined
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Definition of unexamined
: not subjected to examination (such as critical scrutiny, analysis, or comparison) : not carefully weighed or examined
… encouraging students to question their own unexamined beliefs …— Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt With every aspect of public education coming under increased scrutiny, no program is left unexamined.— Patty Kohler and Jacque Reese "The unexamined life is not worth living."— translation of Socrates, as quoted in Plato's Apology
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Time spent examining more Israeli realities might even persuade them that B.D.S. is an unexamined, contradictory bundle, because boycott, disinvestment, and sanctions are three very different things, hurting very different slices of Israeli society. — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, "By Barring Two Congresswomen, Trump and Netanyahu Set a Trap for Democrats," 18 Aug. 2019 Atassi was part of a team that discovered 4,000 rape kits sitting on Cleveland evidence room shelves, unexamined. — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland.com, "Leila Atassi is cleveland.com’s newest metro columnist," 26 July 2019 Much like assumptions, unexamined patterns can hurt job seekers. — Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, "Working Strategies: Three ways job seekers hold themselves back," 6 July 2019 Under left-wing governments Argentina’s judiciary convicted military leaders but left guerrilla crimes unexamined. — The Economist, "Are amnesties in Latin America always a bad idea?," 29 June 2019 At this stage in his sublimely unexamined life and increasingly evident cognitive decline, Trump isn’t really capable of very compelling misdirections or even passably convincing falsehoods. — David Roth, The New Republic, "Making sense of Donald Trump's petulant reign," 12 June 2019 Their passion is for the spontaneous or cowardly or unexamined deed, and its consequences. — The New York Review of Books, "Christine Smallwood," 10 May 2012 The question of whether Western universities have or haven’t abused their positions of authority—and so invited populist attacks on them—remains wholly unexamined. — Barton Swaim, WSJ, "Politics: The Government We ‘Like’," 22 Feb. 2019 Playing a version of herself in an improv group—thus the tricky title—this troubled teenager is caught between her mother, a textbook case of unexamined anxiety, and the purblind, emotionally predatory woman who leads the group. — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, "‘Madeline’s Madeline’ Review: Unraveling On and Off Stage," 9 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unexamined.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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