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  • adjective Not delayed.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ delayed

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Examples

  • In his inaugural address of 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt said, "It may be that an unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure."

    Obama could cite 14th Amendment powers to tackle debt limit 2011

  • I don't blame the quoter either - he knows no better, having grown up in the new society of undelayed gratification.

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  • And surely, I came mayhap so nigh as to within four hundred paces of the Circle; and I to think that I yet to win Mine Own safe and undelayed within the guarding of the Circle.

    The Night Land 2007

  • But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure.

    Fear Itself Ellen Beth Gill 2006

  • But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006

  • But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure.

    September 2006 Ellen Beth Gill 2006

  • ABC's Invasion, a sci-fi series that deals with the aftermath of a hurricane, likewise aired undelayed and unexpurgated.

    Where Are the Post-Katrina Sensitivities? Blowin’ in the Wind - Tuned In - TIME.com 2005

  • His sideways progress was purposeful, undelayed by any consideration but the safest place for his hands and feet.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • His sideways progress was purposeful, undelayed by any consideration but the safest place for his hands and feet.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • Eisentrager 1950 where the Court held that executive power over enemy aliens, undelayed and unhampered by litigation, has been deemed, throughout our history, essential to wartime security.

    Another Good War 2005

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