Meaning & use

Unsanitized

adjective·Everyday

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Not cleaned or disinfected; also, not filtered or censored to remove sensitive or harmful content.

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Guests were warned not to drink from the unsanitized water source near the camp.

The report included unsanitized data, exposing private details that should have been redacted.

A note on using this word

Increasingly used in a data or information sense, referring to raw input that has not been cleaned of errors, malicious code, or private details.

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sanitizeddisinfected

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