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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Google, like other tech giants, has been wary of a backlash against untested AI.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 6 Feb. 2023
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • San Francisco traded three first-round picks and a third-rounder to Miami to move up from No. 12 and draft the untested Lance third overall.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Which group is better positioned for the stretch run -- a young, hungry and untested team or a veteran team?
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Here’s the yes argument: Georgia will have been relatively untested for so late in the year.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The idea of refueling in space dates back decades but remains largely untested.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
  • China’s military forces and weapons are untested in war.
    — Thérèse Shaheen, National Review, 3 Dec. 2023
  • But each man also wore a pair of Colt Paterson revolvers, new and mostly untested.
    — Phil Klay, The New Yorker, 11 June 2022
  • These treatments are far from new and untested: puberty blockers have been used in medical care since the 1990s.
    — Ashley Andreou, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Finally, Gen Z brings a unique—if largely untested—set of values to campus.
    — Jennifer Miller, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The rest of the teams end up being relatively untested partnerships.
    — Todd Boss, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • From light wash straight-leg jeans to a basic black jean, Sienna has left no variation untested.
    — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2022
  • But until My Stupid Life, a debut country record that’s certain to cement Spencer’s place in the genre, all of that seeming stardom had gone untested.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Will the goalie, Alexandar Georgiev, a promising but untested Bulgarian, hold up?
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 20 Mar. 2024
  • He is scheduled to interview for the Jacksonville Jaguars’ head coaching job, a role that last summer went to an untested and since-fired college coach.
    — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The technology is new and largely untested, and Palm Beach County will be one of the first agencies in Florida, and the country, to employ it.
    — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The debut digital event is unknown and untested, so anything could happen, Beth Franken writes for the Tribune.
    — chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Given the stakes, this is one hypothesis that can’t afford to go untested, Johnson says.
    — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 20 Mar. 2023
  • After that, the Badgers have several younger and untested players.
    — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2023

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