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  • adjective Not cracked (in various senses)

Etymologies

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un- +‎ cracked

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Examples

  • John – one other factor – co2 derived from Ice cores – the limit seems 280 ppm, from "uncracked" ice which means ice that was not under internal stress due to dissolved volatiles.

    Top Fifteen Reasons for Withholding Data or Code « Climate Audit 2005

  • The modification leaves the system's internals uncracked, meaning that this PS3 has an intact warranty (though mailing it back to Sony in this condition is not necessarily recommended).

    Gizmodo 2009

  • The modification leaves the system's internals uncracked, meaning that this PS3 has an intact warranty (though mailing it back to Sony in this condition is not necessarily recommended).

    Gizmodo 2009

  • The goal of this an academic exercise: design a device that leaves the egg uncracked.

    An Educational Egg Drop 2011

  • My mother used to slip an orange and uncracked walnuts into our stockings.

    Christmas without presents « Dating Jesus 2009

  • They have stacks of unread magazines collecting on the coffee table and $35 hardcovers with uncracked spines.

    Tebow-Mania Is for Amateurs Jason Gay 2011

  • I came at the ice with such fury in my bones, for sitting there glistening and for being right in front of my TV, and I smashed the hammer at it and on it and around it and the ice sat there cold and unmoved and uncracked and unmelted.

    Melt Zach Yontz 2012

  • But the uncracked nut at the core of her mystery is this: Why didn't Vivian Maier show anyone her pictures?

    The Nanny's Secret William Meyers 2012

  • Before Sony, my TBR pile overflowed ominously, the uncracked spines of unread books glaring at me whenever I entered my office.

    An EP Alert: a Sony Reader review | Edwardian Promenade 2009

  • May the outdoor upholstery stay uncracked and unalgaed and uncolonised by invertebrates.

    The Quezada Residence by Ana Cecilia and Alfred Quezada 2009

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