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uncounted

adjective
un·​count·​ed | \ ˌən-ˈkau̇n-tÉ™d How to pronounce uncounted (audio) \

Definition of uncounted

1 : not counted

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Examples of uncounted in a Sentence

They spent uncounted hours on the project. gazed in wonder at the uncounted stars of the sky

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Bahamian officials have declined to speculate about how many deaths remain uncounted. Washington Post, "Crews in the Bahamas keep finding more bodies. The official Hurricane Dorian death toll is rising more slowly.," 10 Sep. 2019 The problem is that there are now at least 700 such clinics in the U.S., and likely more that have gone uncounted. Lloyd Minor, Fortune, "Why Google’s Crackdown on Fake Medicine Is So Important," 9 Sep. 2019 In the census case, her concern was that Hispanics would fear the citizenship question and choose to go uncounted. Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, "'The People's Justice:' After decade on Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor is most outspoken on bench and off," 8 Aug. 2019 California loses around $2,000 a year in federal funding for each resident who goes uncounted in the census, Los Angeles County officials have estimated. Kaitlyn Bartley, The Mercury News, "Why is California spending $187 million on the 2020 Census? We ask Secretary of State Alex Padilla," 15 Aug. 2019 But in Sacramento, roughly 113,000 voters cast ballots for a district attorney candidate, compared with more than 183,000 four years ago, according to preliminary voting figures, though approximately 220,000 ballots remain uncounted. Abbie Vansickle, latimes.com, "Big spending by George Soros and liberal groups fails to sway D.A. races in California," 7 June 2018 That's likely due to sprawling, uncounted inventories of servers and legacy software that's tough to patch without breaking applications, says BitSight director of security research Dan Dahlberg. Andy Greenberg, WIRED, "Why Microsoft’s BlueKeep Bug Hasn’t Wreaked Havoc—Yet," 17 July 2019 But states can supplement those efforts with additional money and outreach — in California’s case, to reach the 15 million residents deemed at high risk of going uncounted. New York Times, "When It Comes to the Census, the Damage Among Immigrants Is Already Done," 27 June 2019 Human rights groups believe that number could be much higher since many missing migrants go uncounted. Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, "A pregnant woman miscarried while in Border Patrol custody on July 4," 9 July 2019

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First Known Use of uncounted

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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uncounted

adjective

English Language Learners Definition of uncounted

: not counted
: too many to be counted

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