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- adjective Without
fearing .
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- adjective invulnerable to fear or intimidation
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Examples
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In 1968, he wrote that "intellectual freedom is essential to human society -- freedom to receive and impart information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate, and freedom from pressure by authority and prejudice."
Human Rights First: Protest the Moscow Trial of Samodurov and Erofeyev 2009
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I applaud Barack Obama for standing up for himself and all of us with this bold, unfearing, exposure of this alleged "whisper campaign".
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Slams Hillary For Reports Of Dirt-Mongering 2009
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We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.
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I applaud Barack Obama for standing up for himself and all of us with this bold, unfearing, exposure of this alleged "whisper campaign".
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And always a brown rat mood because they were there in pack rat numbers, an endless source of stories, the size of the rats, the attitude of unfearing, how they ate the bodies of those who died in the tunnels, how they were eaten in turn by the rat man who lived in level six under Grand Central, he killed and cooked and ate a rat a week—track rabbits, they were called.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Islands of Wak and bringest them into me, unfearing of my mischief?
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And always a brown rat mood because they were there in pack rat numbers, an endless source of stories, the size of the rats, the attitude of unfearing, how they ate the bodies of those who died in the tunnels, how they were eaten in turn by the rat man who lived in level six under Grand Central, he killed and cooked and ate a rat a week—track rabbits, they were called.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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And always a brown rat mood because they were there in pack rat numbers, an endless source of stories, the size of the rats, the attitude of unfearing, how they ate the bodies of those who died in the tunnels, how they were eaten in turn by the rat man who lived in level six under Grand Central, he killed and cooked and ate a rat a week—track rabbits, they were called.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He never got mugged insofar as I know - if Tommy taught me one thing, it was that a friendly, unfearing attitude will often keep you safe when nothing else will - but he liked having knives in the car, in the home.
Fucking Deal, All Right? andrewducker 2004
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What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in
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