unfulfilled

Example Sentences

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The 31-year-old has often been viewed as an unfulfilled talent in the international game.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

“If you wake up every morning a little bit unfulfilled, it is so common to think, ‘If only I had more money, then everything would be OK,’ because money is so quantifiable,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 21, 2025

To this end, no one has possessed as much unfulfilled promise in carrying the Black celebrity activism torch as Kendrick Lamar.

From Salon • Oct. 18, 2025

Its pronouncement that “all men are created equal” was an idea that resounded around the world even as its promise remained unfulfilled at home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

That is, inventions supposedly arise when a society has an unfulfilled need: some technology is widely recognized to be unsatisfactory or limiting.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond