unplaced
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unplaced (not comparable)
- Not assigned a place.
- 1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
- For none of these I write, and none of these
Could read the writing if they deigned to try;
So may they flourish in their due degrees,
On our sweet earth and in their unplaced sky.
- 2009, Karl N. Magnacca, Patrick M. O'Grady, Revision of the Modified mouthparts species group of Hawaiian Drosophila:
- Until more detailed phylogenetic work is done to elucidate their true relationships, it seems best to leave all these species unplaced.
- (horse racing) Not among the first three horses to finish a race.
- 2009 January 18, Adrian Dunn, “Girls combine to Posta win at Flemington”, in Herald Sun[1]:
- The Listed John Dillon Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Australia Day is an option for Rok Posta, who has only been unplaced four times in his 20 starts.
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