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  • adjective Not annexed.

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un- +‎ annexed

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Examples

  • Residents in unannexed communities often have lowered property values, assume obviously increased health risks and, to add insult to injury, because they are excluded from the town boundaries, have no political say in decisions that directly affect them.

    Jonathan Weiler: Invisible Boundaries, Visible Harm Jonathan Weiler 2011

  • Schuster Mannheim occupied a respectable slice of the GE Building in Rockefeller Center, loftily proud of their chunky brass doors, deco elevators, and marble floors, ever watchful for potential lebensraum in the levels as yet unannexed by them, although willing to concede that the Rainbow Room restaurant and the ice rink twenty floors down, sunk below street level, would remain the domain of tourists forever.

    Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002

  • Schuster Mannheim occupied a respectable slice of the GE Building in Rockefeller Center, loftily proud of their chunky brass doors, deco elevators, and marble floors, ever watchful for potential lebensraum in the levels as yet unannexed by them, although willing to concede that the Rainbow Room restaurant and the ice rink twenty floors down, sunk below street level, would remain the domain of tourists forever.

    Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002

  • Schuster Mannheim occupied a respectable slice of the GE Building in Rockefeller Center, loftily proud of their chunky brass doors, deco elevators, and marble floors, ever watchful for potential lebensraum in the levels as yet unannexed by them, although willing to concede that the Rainbow Room restaurant and the ice rink twenty floors down, sunk below street level, would remain the domain of tourists forever.

    Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002

  • It wouldn't have, at least for a long time, even if it had been left unannexed, but no planet inhabited by Terro-humans could be trusted to remain permanently peaceful and isolated.

    A Slave is a Slave H. Beam Piper 1934

  • I only wanted to stay unannexed to any institution as he was.

    Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

  • [Sidenote: Oregon controversy] [Sidenote: Texas unannexed]

    A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

  • Doubt must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.

    Unspoken Sermons Second Series 1824-1905 1885

  • Every Christian man has large tracts of unannexed territory, unattained possibilities, unenjoyed blessings, things that are his and yet not his.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • Doubt must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.

    Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864

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