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  • adjective not provisioned

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un- +‎ provisioned

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Examples

  • Both in its application and in its results the scientific method is unprovisioned by prior (or posterior) beliefs — which is its principle advantage in application to us.

    Approaches Determine Outcomes 2009

  • And this was no disciplined march; it was a stampede—a stampede gigantic and terrible—without order and without a goal, six million people unarmed and unprovisioned, driving headlong.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • They cannot cross the Anvil of the Sun twice unprovisioned and live.

    Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

  • And this was no disciplined march; it was a stampede — a stampede gigantic and terrible — without order and without a goal, six million people unarmed and unprovisioned, driving headlong.

    The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006

  • And this was no disciplined march; it was a stampede--a stampede gigantic and terrible--without order and without a goal, six million people unarmed and unprovisioned, driving headlong.

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • And this was no disciplined march; it was a stampede--a stampede gigantic and terrible--without order and without a goal, six million people unarmed and unprovisioned, driving headlong.

    The Rout of Civilisation, the Massacre of Mankind 2005

  • I was all alone, and unprovisioned in the midst of the arid waste; but this very awe gave tone and zest to the exultation with which I felt myself launched.

    Eothen 2003

  • The depot was absolutely unprovisioned, and no one was free to leave it.

    The World Set Free Herbert George 1914

  • The intense excitement of the struggle for the plan, and the long night voyage from the mainland in the unprovisioned canoe had, to use his own expression, "taken it out of him."

    The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

  • We also learned that the cause of delay in the ship's coming was an accident on the rocks near Cartwright, making it necessary for them to run to St. Johns for repairs; and also that only the fact of the distressful condition of the Post, unprovisioned as they knew it must be, had induced them to take the hazard of running in and chancing imprison - ment for the winter in the ice.

    The Long Labrador Trail Dillon Wallace 1901

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