How to Use unmediated in a Sentence

unmediated

adjective
  • As unmediated as Wiseman’s footage can feel, themes emerge over time.
    — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2020
  • No one can tell you the unmediated objective truth about yourself because there is none.
    — Hallie Cantor, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Its music seems somehow to bypass my ears and enter my heart and psyche unmediated.
    — Matthew Aucoin, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
  • His perspective seems unmediated by the endless scroll of social feeds.
    — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
  • His music, with its simple strumming and its unmediated lyrics, is generally too plain to be retro.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2026
  • What traces would remain of unmediated human judgment?
    — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Still, several of the up-and-coming treatments — many of them not new at all — shift our focus from unmediated pill popping.
    — Maggie Jones, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2018
  • These films sought to portray life in Iran unmediated, raw, and often dangerously close to the truth.
    — Ali Farahmand, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
  • But the real excitement was in hearing the voices of the justices, live, unmediated and crackling with life.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The older pieces invited such unmediated sounds; newer works required them.
    — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2019
  • It’s driven by an impulse to pare down and seek direct, unmediated experiences.
    — Kyle Chayka, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Libby narrating every step of her rise and fall is a neat trick, but subtracts chances for Danes to show us who Rachel is on her own terms, unmediated.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Twitter is a platform for unmediated broadcasting to roughly a quarter billion active users.
    — Roger McNamee, Time, 19 Dec. 2022
  • And while some fictions may be more accurate than others, none offer unmediated access to reality.
    — Roy Scranton august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
  • With no frills or flourishes, the UK pop artist sings over a relaxed arrangement that keeps you focused on the unmediated message in her lyrics.
    — Tara Aquino, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Shane’s writing has an exposing, unmediated style—the kind that’s formed on the Internet, where insight is reaped from the everyday.
    — Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The result is an unmediated honest expression, lightly fruity, earthy and delicious.
    — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Social media complicated the situation by allowing the videos to loop over and over again, raw and unmediated.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Monetization of microblogging proved to be a challenge, so the platform evolved in steps to its current model of unmediated broadcast to a mass audience.
    — Roger McNamee, Time, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Fewer are making the time for the first-hand, unmediated experience that produces original thought – and delivers impact.
    — Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Visiting new and old favorites will then be as safe, as unmediated, and as inclusive as possible, but only with continued effort on the part of our museum leaders.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The reverent score and the interplay between unmediated color footage and black-and-white security-camera footage will give you the chills, as will some of the choreography.
    — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Hence the persistent attraction to the rustic, unmediated emotion of the Magnetic Zeros clip and its ilk.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The rise of social media allowed people to talk about politics in an unmediated way, reading and saying things that would never have been seen on broadcast television or read in newspapers.
    — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Rewatching the show after 25 years was an oddly unmediated, even moving experience, like dreaming or getting stoned.
    — Gabriel Rom, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • There’s something really powerful about hearing the person’s real voice, unmediated.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 5 June 2021
  • No language, no false impressions, no confusion, just the unmediated pleasure of presence and the everyday faith of some sort of understanding passing between them.
    — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
  • The researchers also recorded what type of unmediated brain activity coincided with periods of low mood or energy.
    — New York Times, 24 Feb. 2021
  • That close and unmediated relationship between performers and listeners has been fundamental to music since a cave dweller first tapped two rocks together and a companion howled along.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
  • But his show also demonstrated that TV populists, like all populists, aren’t just reflecting broad, unmediated reality.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023

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