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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unbeaten
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
record
▪ Cound quick Bowler Andy Parry had put Llanidloes's unbeaten record under threat with 5-58.
▪ Colts champion Michael Gilpin maintained his unbeaten record, winning his 2.6K race by a comfortable 18 seconds.
▪ McMillan's unbeaten record lasted until the sixth end when they lost 7-6 to another Stranraer team, skipped by Peter Wilson.
run
▪ United's 3-3 draw with Luton on Tuesday stretched their unbeaten run to four games since John Beck was sacked.
▪ Unbeaten run A 3-3 draw at home to Lowestoft Town was enough to extend Tiptree's unbeaten run to six.
▪ The comment concerned the standard of opposition Leeds have been facing during this unbeaten run and in particular the last match.
▪ The 24-year-old turned on the style to stretch the Crues' unbeaten run and book a Gold Cup quarter-final spot.
▪ The scene looked set for another Bangor triumph, to continue their unbeaten run in domestic football.
▪ Those who were there saw an eighth Prenton win of the season in an unbeaten run of 11 home games.
▪ Ants U/16s continued their unbeaten run with a massive 42-0 victory over Bishop Challoner.
team
▪ Gloucester still the only unbeaten team.
▪ So Oklahoma finishes as the only unbeaten team, and nobody needed a computer to have it wind up No. 1.
▪ Their 7-6 win over previously unbeaten West Hartlepool leaves then as one of only two unbeaten teams in the Courage national divisions.
▪ Vegas' unbeaten team posted offensive numbers that were scary.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Based on the schedules and conference setups, as many as seven teams could be unbeaten going into the bowl games.
▪ Gloucester still the only unbeaten team.
▪ He comes in as a replacement for unbeaten fellow Liverpudlian Shea Neary, who is out with a hand injury.
▪ It ended a winning streak of 16 Tests and an unbeaten sequence of 18.
▪ Norton's David Kennedy hit an unbeaten 105 including six sixes and eight fours at Darlington.
▪ Springfield, relegated from the Premier last season, edged past previously unbeaten Great Burstead by 15 runs.
▪ Surrey declared their second innings on 310-6 with Bicknell hitting an unbeaten 53 after brother Darren had earlier scored 87.
▪ Wednesday bid to maintain their unbeaten start to the Premier League.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unbeaten

late 13c., "not beaten or struck," from un- (1) + beaten. In the sense of "undefeated" it is first recorded 1757. Old English had ungebeaten "unwrought, unstruck."

Wiktionary
unbeaten

a. not defeated

WordNet
unbeaten

adj. not conquered [syn: unconquered, unvanquished]

Usage examples of "unbeaten".

Yoonistan, and his wines of Ferangistan, his eunuchs of Egypt, and his carpets of Bokhara, and his great sealed boxes bursting with unbeaten gold, and his beads of amethyst, and his bracelets of sapphire, all this and all his women, his chosen flower-like women, are yours for lust and loot and lechery, my children--all save her of whom I warned you--a woman who was mine, and who shall sit unveiled with me on the throne of all the Caliphs.

Ask them who was the greatest filly of all time, and the answer will be unanimous: the fabulous Ruffian, who was unbeaten until she broke down in front of 75,000 people and 80 million televiewers during her match race with Foolish Pleasure.

The little path leading to it from the main road was unbeaten either by trace of cariole or web of snow-shoe, but her horse broke through it easily enough, and pulled up in front of the hut almost before it was seen.

Hard times forced Jack into just as lonely and isolated an existence as Leo's, cut off from his family, alone in the world, but what Leo notices in his uncle and the other men of the Depression is a kind of unbeaten hopefulness, an optimism that he hasn't known for too long and spending time among them reawakens his own capacity for hope.

It wasn’t a great game, but it was a good time to come, because Arsenal were slap-bang in the middle of a tremendous twenty-two-game unbeaten run, and crowds were up, spirits were up, young players (Rocky, Niall, Adams, Hayes, who later became her inexplicable favourite) were in the team and playing well, and the previous Saturday we’d all been down to Southampton to see the new League leaders.

He who chooses the high, unbeaten tracks should have overcome all tender-heartedness that leads to half measures.