How to Use untested in a Sentence

untested

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  • Then came a statewide push to clear shelves of untested kits across the state.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2023
  • But much of the team is young and untested on the sport’s biggest stage.
    — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2021
  • The Lightning is the first of its kind, so demand is untested.
    — Annie White, Car and Driver, 20 May 2021
  • While Boston doesn’t have a backlog of untested kits, the state does.
    — Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
  • These types of untested laws came to life after May 2022.
    — Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Caballero mentions is more far out than even the rest of these untested ideas.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2020
  • By contrast, the movie’s Gawain, played by Dev Patel, is untested, unknown, and a bit of a ne’er-do-well.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • But because the law is so new, and so untested, there could be a steep learning curve for judges in how to apply it.
    — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • With each new track came a new way for the group to flow, a previously untested style to plant the De La flag into.
    — Hazlitt, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Will Raymond’s second chair, untested Mya, take over the case?
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 July 2024
  • Most of the efforts are untested, and each carries its own risks in a war zone where thousands have already been killed.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The model is not just a lofty idea that the architects are asking people to try, untested.
    — CNN, 27 May 2021
  • Google, like other tech giants, has been wary of a backlash against untested AI.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 6 Feb. 2023
  • And some, dissuaded by the prospect of lingering on sidewalks for more than three hours in the rain, walked away untested.
    — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2020
  • But data from open sources is untested at the ICC, and it has been tossed out by national courts in some cases.
    — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2022
  • From full-sized models to personal blenders to hand blenders, no type went untested.
    — Eva Bleyer, Good Housekeeping, 7 July 2023
  • The backlog of untested rape kits hit 6,600 at one point, with one victim waiting five years to have hers tested.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The closest thing to untested among the elite is the Chargers’ Justin Herbert, going into his third season as starter.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Aug. 2022
  • And the idea that voters will reward Democrats even if the bills do pass remains an untested theory.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The powers of secretaries of state to subvert elections vary from state to state and are largely untested in court.
    — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2022
  • That discrepancy, like much else in the case, remains untested in the courtroom.
    — al, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Police use of such robots is still rare and largely untested — and hasn’t always gone over well with the public.
    — NBC News, 30 July 2021
  • Police use of such robots is still rare and largely untested – and hasn’t always gone over well with the public.
    — Matt O'Brien and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2021
  • Police use of such robots is still rare and largely untested – and hasn't always gone over well with the public.
    — Matt O'Brien and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, USA TODAY, 30 July 2021
  • Police use of such robots is still rare and largely untested — and hasn't always gone over well with the public.
    — Matt O'Brien and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Other than that, she’s been untested and unbeaten, rarely touching the ball in three games, two of which ended in shutouts.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The technology for doing this is largely untested at scale, and won’t be cheap.
    — E&e News, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The group has appealed the judgment, which could become an important test case for a mostly-untested area of law.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • Highly advanced but untested and pushing boundaries with some risks are clearer ways to convey the idea.
    — Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • But Andrews cautions that Himalayan ascents aren’t for untested trail runners.
    — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2024

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