unread
Example Sentences
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While editing helps with emails I do send, a bigger challenge remains: the 16,685 unread messages in my inbox.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 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
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
Since 1996, she has published books of poetry, short fiction, essays and graphic novels; she wrote the libretto for an opera; and she wrote a novel that will remain unread for nearly 100 years.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025
My eyes fixed on the screen: three unread messages.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
