unexecuted

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"It may not be the best plan, but a plan executed vigorously is better than the best unexecuted plan in the world."

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2022

Though Lebanon denied that Hassan was in the country and the warrant went unexecuted, it was a shot across the bow.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022

According to a document Matthesen prepared for her lawyers in October of 2006, Ford’s unexecuted will specified that he did not want his family to get his estate.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2019

“Two arrest warrants against Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf Al-Werfalli remain unexecuted more than two years since the first warrant was issued,” she said.

From The Guardian • Nov. 6, 2019

The Encyclopædia was still unconceived, and the momentous work which that famous design was to accomplish, of organising the philosophers and men of letters into an army with banners, was still unexecuted.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues by Morley, John