unobserved

CEFRB2

/ˈʌnəˈbzɜrvd/

adjective

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Such practices as Theſe, too groſs to lye / Long unobſerv'd by each diſcerning Eye, / The more judicious Iſraelites Unſpell'd, / Though ſtill the Charm the giddy Rabble held, […]
The visitors we do not encourage are the many small boys who slip in unobserved and are a danger to themselves and the staff.

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Such practices as Theſe, too groſs to lye / Long unobſerv'd by each diſcerning Eye, / The more judicious Iſraelites Unſpell'd, / Though ſtill the Charm the giddy Rabble held, […]
1682, [Nahum Tate; John Dryden], The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 5
The relation of the logit formula to the distribution of unobserved utility (as opposed to the characteristics of choice probabilities) was developed by Marley, as cited by Luce and Suppes (1965), who showed that the extreme value distribution leads to the logit formula.
2002, chapter 3, in Behavioral Models, UC Berkeley, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2022, page 38
The visitors we do not encourage are the many small boys who slip in unobserved and are a danger to themselves and the staff.
1960 April 26, A. W. Bennett, “A Locomotive Shedmaster's Day”, in Railway Magazine, page 273

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From un- + observed.