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  • adjective Not replaced.

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un- +‎ replaced

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Examples

  • Lobbies and corridors were vandalized, elevators broke down, staircases became garbage dumps, roofs leaked, and broken windows remained unreplaced.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • Lobbies and corridors were vandalized, elevators broke down, staircases became garbage dumps, roofs leaked, and broken windows remained unreplaced.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • Lobbies and corridors were vandalized, elevators broke down, staircases became garbage dumps, roofs leaked, and broken windows remained unreplaced.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • Nevertheless, if the future is something like that, then what of pbooks 'value will be left unreplaced by ebooks?

    David Weinberger: What's Irreplaceable About Books? 2009

  • The billboard is unevenly lighted, dim in spots, several bulbs blown and unreplaced, but the central elements are clear, a vast cascade of orange juice pouring diagonally from top right into a goblet that is handheld at lower left—the perfectly formed hand of a female Caucasian of the middle suburbs.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Even of residual (and so sitting, still unreplaced) bureaucrats in Departments and vestiges from Bushbutchery.

    Getting ready to hold Obama's feet to the fire. 2008

  • The billboard is unevenly lighted, dim in spots, several bulbs blown and unreplaced, but the central elements are clear, a vast cascade of orange juice pouring diagonally from top right into a goblet that is handheld at lower left—the perfectly formed hand of a female Caucasian of the middle suburbs.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • The billboard is unevenly lighted, dim in spots, several bulbs blown and unreplaced, but the central elements are clear, a vast cascade of orange juice pouring diagonally from top right into a goblet that is handheld at lower left—the perfectly formed hand of a female Caucasian of the middle suburbs.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • But who wants a server (let alone a business-critical server) where half the (unreplaced) components (3 RAID hard drives, 1 of 2 CPUs, etc) have been exposed to a supply voltage that smoked the other half of the server?

    Dear Mr. Dell « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Yet, for all its airiness, there was a mood of want and disrepair, as though the modern style had fallen by accident, by unreplaced breakage, loss.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

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