unaccounted for

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The authors also noted that other, unaccounted-for health or lifestyle factors may have influenced the results.

From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025

In 2017, Kubinec’s casket was among 35 exhumed that were associated with the West Virginia and sent for DNA testing by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which works to recover and identify unaccounted-for soldiers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

But it later confirmed there was another unaccounted-for passenger on the flight.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2024

Relatives of passengers still listed as unaccounted-for waited outside a hospital for news, among them Mirella Ruci, whose 22-year-old son Denis remains missing.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

Gies & Co. still had some unaccounted-for thousand-guilder bills, which they used to pay their estimated taxes for the coming years, so everything seems to be aboveboard.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank