Unsupported
adjective
Not held or maintained by something else.
The ceiling is unsupported and may collapse.
Often appears as...
- unsupported ceiling
- unsupported claim
adjective
Without any evidence or good reason to believe it is true.
His unsupported claim was dismissed by the authorities.
Often appears as...
- unsupported accusation
- unsupported assumption
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Disapproving
adj
In computing, referring to software or hardware that is no longer updated or maintained by its creator.
If you continue using the unsupported version of the software, it may pose security risks.
Often appears as...
- unsupported software
- unsupported hardware
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Technical
adjective
Not held or maintained by something else.
The ceiling is unsupported and may collapse.
Often appears as...
- unsupported ceiling
- unsupported claim
adjective
Without any evidence or good reason to believe it is true.
His unsupported claim was dismissed by the authorities.
Often appears as...
- unsupported accusation
- unsupported assumption
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Disapproving
adj
In computing, referring to software or hardware that is no longer updated or maintained by its creator.
If you continue using the unsupported version of the software, it may pose security risks.
Often appears as...
- unsupported software
- unsupported hardware
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Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Support
Usually describes physical objects like structures or parts of buildings that might be in danger.
Be cautious near that unsupported balcony.
Pro Tip 2/3Risk of Failure
Emphasizes the potential risk or instability connected with the unsupported object.
The bridge is unsupported in the middle and could fail.
Pro Tip 3/3Spatial Use
Focuses on how unsupported is often used to describe things in space without visible support.
The sculpture stands unsupported in the center of the room.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Support
Usually describes physical objects like structures or parts of buildings that might be in danger.
Be cautious near that unsupported balcony.
Pro Tip 2/3Risk of Failure
Emphasizes the potential risk or instability connected with the unsupported object.
The bridge is unsupported in the middle and could fail.
Pro Tip 3/3Spatial Use
Focuses on how unsupported is often used to describe things in space without visible support.
The sculpture stands unsupported in the center of the room.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Support
Usually describes physical objects like structures or parts of buildings that might be in danger.
Be cautious near that unsupported balcony.
Pro Tip 2/3Risk of Failure
Emphasizes the potential risk or instability connected with the unsupported object.
The bridge is unsupported in the middle and could fail.
Pro Tip 3/3Spatial Use
Focuses on how unsupported is often used to describe things in space without visible support.
The sculpture stands unsupported in the center of the room.
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Why bother leaving the...
embarking on these grand adventures is joyful and fun, however, doesn't tally that neatly with my own experience. The furthest I've ever got away from my front door was in the spring of 2004. I still don't know exactly what came over me, but my plan was to make a solo and unsupported crossing of the Arctic Ocean.
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Ben Saunders: To the...
but it does seem to produce a lot of empty cardboard boxes. You can see on the left of this photograph, several square acres of junk waiting to be flown out from the South Pole. But there is also a pole at the South Pole, and we got there on foot, unassisted, unsupported, by the hardest route,
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Super Pipeline PIPE...
entire pipeline which is free hanging beneath the ship without exactly the right tension the fight could snap like a matchstick the pipe comes off the back of the barge who must call a lazy-s configuration that s of unsupported pipe has to be kept from just buckling under its own weight
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How health workers are...
benzodiazepines which is another medication that we're in very short supply of we need critically for intensive care unit patients and so you know everything has consequences that we will then have to grapple with so not you know unsupported you so these medications this really has the
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Can you solve the...
not wasting a single kiloliter of fuel. It also helps us to think symmetrically so they can make shorter trips in either direction while setting the professor up for a long unsupported stretch in the middle. Here's his solution. All three planes take off at noon flying west,
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The left brain vs. right...
This structure has inspired one of the most pervasive ideas about the brain, that the left side controls logic and the right, creativity. And yet, this is a myth unsupported by scientific evidence. So how did this misleading idea come about, and what does it get wrong?
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Colin Grant: The son of...
but when my parents separated, my mother excised him from all aspects of our lives. She took a pair of scissors and cut him out of every photograph, and for years, I told myself the truth of this photograph was that you are alone, you are unsupported.
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Brian Goldman: Doctors...
that my worst mistakes only happened in the first five years of practice as many of my colleagues say, which is total B.S. Some of my doozies have been in the last five years. Alone, ashamed and unsupported. Here's the
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Billy Samuel Mwape: An...
And some specialists started preparing us for the worst by telling us that we were going to be very lucky if he ever sat upright and unsupported. Before us was a gigantic, seemingly immovable mountain.
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3 ways to be a better...
So, I realized recently that I still have lingering shame and fear from that moment in my career when I felt utterly alone, shut out and unsupported.
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Why bother leaving the...
embarking on these grand adventures is joyful and fun, however, doesn't tally that neatly with my own experience. The furthest I've ever got away from my front door was in the spring of 2004. I still don't know exactly what came over me, but my plan was to make a solo and unsupported crossing of the Arctic Ocean.
Video examples
Ben Saunders: To the...
but it does seem to produce a lot of empty cardboard boxes. You can see on the left of this photograph, several square acres of junk waiting to be flown out from the South Pole. But there is also a pole at the South Pole, and we got there on foot, unassisted, unsupported, by the hardest route,
Video examples
Super Pipeline PIPE...
entire pipeline which is free hanging beneath the ship without exactly the right tension the fight could snap like a matchstick the pipe comes off the back of the barge who must call a lazy-s configuration that s of unsupported pipe has to be kept from just buckling under its own weight
Video examples
How health workers are...
benzodiazepines which is another medication that we're in very short supply of we need critically for intensive care unit patients and so you know everything has consequences that we will then have to grapple with so not you know unsupported you so these medications this really has the
Video examples
Can you solve the...
not wasting a single kiloliter of fuel. It also helps us to think symmetrically so they can make shorter trips in either direction while setting the professor up for a long unsupported stretch in the middle. Here's his solution. All three planes take off at noon flying west,
Video examples
The left brain vs. right...
This structure has inspired one of the most pervasive ideas about the brain, that the left side controls logic and the right, creativity. And yet, this is a myth unsupported by scientific evidence. So how did this misleading idea come about, and what does it get wrong?
Video examples
Colin Grant: The son of...
but when my parents separated, my mother excised him from all aspects of our lives. She took a pair of scissors and cut him out of every photograph, and for years, I told myself the truth of this photograph was that you are alone, you are unsupported.
Video examples
Brian Goldman: Doctors...
that my worst mistakes only happened in the first five years of practice as many of my colleagues say, which is total B.S. Some of my doozies have been in the last five years. Alone, ashamed and unsupported. Here's the
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Billy Samuel Mwape: An...
And some specialists started preparing us for the worst by telling us that we were going to be very lucky if he ever sat upright and unsupported. Before us was a gigantic, seemingly immovable mountain.
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3 ways to be a better...
So, I realized recently that I still have lingering shame and fear from that moment in my career when I felt utterly alone, shut out and unsupported.
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Chauncey Wright
American Philosopher
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
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Jimmy Chin
American Athlete
I've tried to eat little shrubs before. We were on an unsupported 20-plus day traverse, following the migration of endangered antelope across the Chang Tang Plateau. We were like, 'Oh, this is what they ate; we should try it.
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Martha Beck
American Author
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.
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Ivan Pavlov
Russian Psychologist
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
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Rick Wilson
American Author
Trump will never, ever do the right or decent thing, and his consultants certainly won't. He will make outrageous, unsupported claims.
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Chauncey Wright
American Philosopher
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
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Jimmy Chin
American Athlete
I've tried to eat little shrubs before. We were on an unsupported 20-plus day traverse, following the migration of endangered antelope across the Chang Tang Plateau. We were like, 'Oh, this is what they ate; we should try it.
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Martha Beck
American Author
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.
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Ivan Pavlov
Russian Psychologist
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
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Rick Wilson
American Author
Trump will never, ever do the right or decent thing, and his consultants certainly won't. He will make outrageous, unsupported claims.
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