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  • adjective Not consulted.

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un- +‎ consulted

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Examples

  • The benefits of this are obvious, but the downside is that a scholar can rarely justify their work on the basis of making a new discovery of previously unconsulted sources.

    From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

  • BBC misrepresenting the political views of the unconsulted British people again: "UK 'backs Blair for EU president'"

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • Unless the new president sends a firm countermessage in the next few weeks, tens of thousands of Haitians will take him up on his asylum offer, inundating his first days in office, enabling Henry, Jeane, Zbig and other unconsulted foreign-policy bishops to hold a furious "I told you he was an amateur" cluckathon.

    When Everyone's An Amateur 2008

  • No wonder, according to one estimate, doctors waste $50 billion to $100 billion on "defensive medicine" to prove that they left no stone unturned, no test untried, no medication unprescribed, no specialist unconsulted.

    Civil Wars 2007

  • Hostages from the ordinary world held unawares, they watch or pass by, as near and far from the action as a criminal's unconsulted conscience.

    Day into Noir Douglas, Ann 2007

  • Hostages from the ordinary world held unawares, they watch or pass by, as near and far from the action as a criminal's unconsulted conscience.

    Day into Noir Douglas, Ann 2007

  • For a loaded moment, the emotions linking the two couples crackle in the stuffy room among the unconsulted computers.

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

  • For a loaded moment, the emotions linking the two couples crackle in the stuffy room among the unconsulted computers.

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

  • For a loaded moment, the emotions linking the two couples crackle in the stuffy room among the unconsulted computers.

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

  • He has never spoken to Eleanor about her lover; he is the last man in the world to allude to such a subject unconsulted, even with his own daughter; and had he considered that he had ground to disapprove of Bold, he would have removed her, or forbidden him his house; but he saw no such ground.

    The Warden 2004

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