unfilled

Example Sentences

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It has more than 6,800 unfilled jet orders.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

The key position of NSF director has been unfilled ever since Sethuraman Panchanathan, a computer scientist and academic administrator, resigned in April 2025.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy described recruitment freezes, deleted posts and unfilled vacancies being widespread in services across the UK, with the situation continually worsening.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Thousands of positions go unfilled, which means apples go unpicked and tomatoes rot in fields.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

This is one of the things I wasn’t prepared for — the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood