unapplied

Example Sentences

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It's in the pure or unapplied kind of realm of the sciences that is just exploratory.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2025

Largely ignored, as a result, is the daring and unapplied "basic" research on which such teams as A.T.&T.'s Bell Laboratories thrive.

From Time Magazine Archive

One second-rate book of such observations, with special reference to Ireland, were worth many greater performances unapplied to the means and need of our country.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

This is true of many New England neighbourhoods and of the whole Cumberland Mountain region, and it is in response to a demand for direction of unapplied advantages that this book is written.

From How to make rugs by Wheeler, Candace

Would you give up the contest leaving every available means unapplied?

From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie