unspent

Example Sentences

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A year on, much of the planned $584 billion infrastructure plan remains unspent, locked behind bureaucratic bottlenecks set up to guard against excessive spending in the notoriously frugal country.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Mejia has been critical of the city’s spending on homelessness, citing an instance in which half the money budgeted to address the issue went unspent.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Veron said so far the EU has used the European budget and in particular unspent sums to provide guarantees that the debt will be repaid.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

However, those initial proposals had been expected to change, after hundreds of millions were left unspent, and Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford suggested he would be willing to give the NHS and councils more cash.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

But by Wednesday when the greengrocer came he often had to ask for it back, and she always had it, unspent and waiting.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom