unchecked

Example Sentences

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But that one-time financial boost will fade, signaling more trouble could be brewing if inflation, already near 4%, keeps rising unchecked.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

There will be searching questions about how such an audacious crime could have gone unnoticed and unchecked for more than a decade, and vindication for the detectives who decided they needed that tent.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

Both cast debt as a bogeyman turning capitalism into an extraction device that, left unchecked or unwisely channeled, can take everything from any of us.

From Salon • May 4, 2026

LeBron James flying down the lane unchecked for a pumping over-the-shoulder slam.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

One unchecked matter was an unfinished letter he had started when we’d taken a hike in Haiti.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French