unused

Example Sentences

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They slumped in the years that followed when demand normalized and extra capacity the industry added went unused.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

This suggests the adult brain holds a large reserve of unused connections that can be activated when new information arrives.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

He wants to rapidly expand emergency shelters on unused government land “so that people living in encampments have somewhere safe to go immediately.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Steve Eccleshall says he wrote to Labour's Steve Witherden to ask for help to secure the release of 40 unused ventilators from Wrexham Maelor Hospital.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

On the morning of January 21,1970, Scruggs was in one of the mortar pits getting ready to clean his gun when a truck loaded with unused 81mm mortars pulled in to a nearby pit.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge