unread
Example Sentences
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Assignments didn’t go unread, unassessed or ungraded because affluent children attended elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Raden prefers to operate at “inbox zero,” but on Friday, she has 132 unread emails, which physically pains her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
And that might have been where this all ended—an unread message sinking to the bottom of my inbox—if not for an email LabCorp sent three weeks later.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026
One of Australia's biggest telecommunication companies sent emails about a deadly outage to the wrong email address at the Department of Communcations where they remained unread for over a day, parliament has heard.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025
There are three unread messages: one from Auntie Alice, one from Eva, and one from Hattie.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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