unused

Example Sentences

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There was admiration in his face, an expression it was patently unused to.

From Literature

Nothing in the bathroom but an unused bar of soap.

From Literature

During the dot-com bubble, companies laid a lot of unused fiberoptic cables, or dark fiber, in anticipation of demand, and 95% of those stayed dark when the bubble burst.

From Barron's

“People are driving by and picking up all the unused designer cast-offs in her trash,” one so-called spy told the publication anonymously.

From MarketWatch

This idea led to the widely accepted theory that excessive "synaptic pruning," the process of removing weak or unused connections, could contribute to neuropsychiatric conditions.

From Science Daily