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Example Sentences
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State regulators ordered Southern California Edison to identify fire risks on its unused transmission lines like the century-old equipment suspected of igniting the devastating Eaton wildfire.
From Los Angeles Times
The United States may already be producing most of the critical minerals it needs, but much of that material is currently going unused.
From Science Daily
Workers have been removing pumps from the leased land, and power lines that once supplied the wells stand unused in the desert.
From Los Angeles Times
In the late 1990s, a large amount of capital was used to install dark fiber— unused fiberoptic cables—capacity that far exceeded demand.
From Barron's
UnitedHealth Group’s pharmacy mailed Medicare recipient Bill Zielinski so many refills of the cholesterol drug atorvastatin that his unused stash could last a year on the pill-a-day regimen his doctor ordered.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
