uncaught

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Recent Examples of uncaught His perfect parade was broken up by an error in the fourth inning when miscommunication between Andy Pages and Kyle Tucker led to Trea Turner’s fly ball glancing off Tucker’s glove and dropping to the warning track uncaught. Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 30 May 2026 Women and children of the city are living in a state of terror, fearing that the fiend, if uncaught, will commit other outrages in this city. Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025 The Cubs carried a two-run lead into the sixth inning against the San Diego Padres, owners of the best record in baseball, when everything started to unravel after an uncaught fly ball. Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025 From demons to death cults, uncaught killers to unsolved disappearances, these genre films have proven that truth is not just stranger, but also scarier than fiction. Declan Gallagher and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024 Despite a massive daily cleanup operation that leaves the post-parade landscape remarkably clean, uncaught beads dangle from tree limbs like Spanish moss and get ground into the mud under the feet of passers-by. Kevin McGill, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2024 Fishing for coho has been excellent at times and biologists said 44,000 hatchery coho remained uncaught Monday from the quota of 84,000. Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 22 Aug. 2022 That ratio can then be used to calculate the number that went uncaught in real life. The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncaught
Adjective
  • With Worthy back, the Chiefs offense suddenly seems unbound as well.
    Jesse Newell, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Ideas flow when the body is occupied but the mind is unbound.
    Karen Palmer September 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • During the limited time the media could observe training, Pulisic looked to be unrestrained and moving freely.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
  • Alessi is unrestrained joy in tabletop form.
    Angela Tafoya, Architectural Digest, 23 June 2026
Adjective
  • This pair is loose through the hips and thighs, with a not-too-wide leg that feels timeless.
    Genevieve Cepeda, InStyle, 27 June 2026
  • Potential profits have encouraged traffickers to ship massive amounts of illicit drugs to both countries, often across the Pacific Ocean from South America via the Pacific Islands, a loose cluster of thousands of islands and atolls.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
Adjective
  • While Salomon sneakers are, in part, known for their shoelaces that never come untied, this pair doesn’t have any at all.
    Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
  • Grandaddy, unbeaten and untied and still heavyweight champion of the college football world.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • The filmmaker joins the latest edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to discuss the glitch in the matrix (so to speak) that produced such an unfettered and uncensored explosion of self-expression.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 30 June 2026
  • But the reality failed to live up to the hype as Britain struggled to adjust to life without unfettered access to the 27-nation free trade bloc and its market of 450 million people.
    Danica Kirka, Fortune, 22 June 2026
Adjective
  • America’s 250th has unleashed flashbacks to the Bicentennial, a buildup to July 4, 1976, awash in corporate patriotic branding, a flood of variety specials and a very memorable version of Schoolhouse Rock.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 3 July 2026
  • Restraint of animals Simply put, allowing unleashed animals to leave the property is a violation of Charlotte’s restraint of animals ordinance.
    Eva Flowe July 2, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026
Adjective
  • The undone to-do list has become a social occasion.
    Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026
  • Here's a looser, more undone example.
    Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 24 June 2026

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“Uncaught.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncaught. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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