work undone

Example Sentences

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Employees who were supposed to upgrade key department computer systems were pulled away to address the attack, leaving the upgrade work undone.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2023

And we are always rightly anxious about taking credit for work undone.

From Fox News • Apr. 22, 2020

We will have our work undone, and we will have to conquer our own exhaustion and grief in order to redo it.

From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2018

"There's work undone there, in the sense we need to see it move up in line with our objective," she said in December.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2018

She was ashamed of the many times — more times than she could count — when she had skipped off and left her work undone.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare