unread

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While editing helps with emails I do send, a bigger challenge remains: the 16,685 unread messages in my inbox.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026

How many unread text messages do you have?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2025

There was a time when I would treat it like a social media app, clicking the mail icon on my phone, hoping for the excitement of an unread email.

From Slate • Nov. 17, 2024

It's a movement that imagines itself to be intellectually heady, replete with allusions to ancient writers and philosophers that mostly go unread.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024

As he helped his mother clear the table, long after Njemile and her parents left, he pulled his phone out again, the unread text still on his lock screen.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro