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unread

[uhn-red] / ʌnˈrɛd /










ADJECTIVE
untaught
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Nearly all of Irving’s once-famous satires are unread today, though “Rip Van Winkle” lives on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Assignments didn’t go unread, unassessed or ungraded because affluent children attended elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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

Mackesy describes how during lockdown he received "terrifying numbers of emails" through his website, remembering one occasion when his phone said that he had 86,000 unread emails.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

But when I open it today, there are a lot of unread messages waiting for me.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas


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