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unknown

[uhn-nohn] / ʌnˈnoʊn /


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The study uncovered a previously unknown role for these cells.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2026

Joining them is a boy of unknown provenance who, the others guess, was warned by his parents to keep silent and has never spoken since.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Yet how lucrative quantum will be for IBM remains unknown.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

His show premiered around the same time another unknown quantity was throwing his hat in the political ring: Donald Trump.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

By the turn of the century the fringes of the continent were fairly well defined on the charts, but the interior was still an unknown wasteland of ice.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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