unanswered

Example Sentences

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This came home during Covid when many people reached out to elected officials but their cries for help went unanswered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 6, 2026

Like victims and survivors, the worker expresses frustration that, after decades of investigations and political debate, many of the fundamental questions remain unanswered.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2026

Alex Papadopoulos, a postgraduate researcher at the Institute for Gravitational Research, explained that the expanded catalog is also helping scientists tackle one of cosmology's biggest unanswered questions: how fast the Universe is expanding.

From Science Daily • Jul. 2, 2026

Letters from lawmakers have gone unanswered and required reports unfiled.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2026

The tests were given in only a fraction of the time usually needed for completion, so most children had lots of unanswered questions, and when the time was up the tests were collected and graded.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell