unread
Example Sentences
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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
No rehearsal or director, just the actor and the terror of an unread script.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 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
"No," I say, and I wonder if maybe the note is not better left unread.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.