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unread

[uhn-red] / ʌnˈrɛd /










ADJECTIVE
untaught
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More messages, many of which are designed primarily to be read by bots, will stay unread by colleagues.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

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

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

There was a time when I would treat it like a social media app, clicking the mail icon on my phone, hoping for the excitement of an unread email.

From Slate Nov. 17, 2024

Most academic analyses of this sort tend to languish, unread, on a dusty library shelf.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt




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