The phrase "almost unchecked" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or condition that is nearly free from control or restriction.
Example: "The growth of the invasive species in the lake has been almost unchecked, leading to significant ecological changes."
Alternatives: "nearly unrestrained" or "practically uncontrolled".
But in North America, the plant grows almost unchecked.
Meanwhile, emissions from coal-fired power plants persist almost unchecked.
The agency said many operators ride almost unchecked on state forests and private land, ripping up trails and littering.
It has also brought new attention to the almost unchecked authority that New York state gives the comptroller in investment decisions for the fund.
At a time when the market's reach into every corner of civic life seems almost unchecked, critics ask, why make politics, too, dependent on stock prices?
During the interim period, the declaration puts almost unchecked power in the hands of the president himself, who can issue legislation, constitutional declarations and ill-defined states of emergency.
In 1986, a midair plane crash above the Grand Canyon National Park — where sightseeing tours had operated virtually unchecked for almost 70 years — prompted Congress to pass the National Parks Overflights Act, requiring the Park Service to work with the Federal Aviation Administration in remedying the "significant adverse effect on the natural quiet" that aircraft there appeared to be having.
As Marvin Frankel, a Democrat, argued back in 1973, when judges had very wide discretion, "The almost wholly unchecked and sweeping powers we give to judges in the fashioning of sentences are terrifying and intolerable for a society that professes devotion to the rule of law".
Once again, the virus that has been running almost totally unchecked through the body politic of America at least since 9/11 is a fear and lie-driven effort - too well coordinated for it to be accidental - to kill off America's ability to make rational and logical decisions about its future.
He has an uncanny knack for distilling a large truth about irrationality (which, left unchecked, almost always trumps rationality) into diagrams everyone can understand.
What's obvious is that rightwing violence almost always goes unchecked, even when it happens under officers' noses or on camera.
