unread
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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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