as in hidden
not seen or able to be seen
unseen dangers He escaped unseen.
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Recent Examples of unseen
To commemorate the upcoming 10-year anniversary of that beloved team, The Charlotte Observer put together its own team — of journalists, who have spent six months conducting dozens of exclusive interviews and searching for previously unseen visuals.
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Charlotte Observer, 10 July 2025
Today’s top stories The move comes days after President Trump signed a budget that will provide a mass infusion of funds to the Department of Homeland Security to ramp up its immigration enforcement to levels unseen before in the United States.
—James Rainey
follow, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
Tindall, the present assistant at Newcastle, is hardly unseen.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 7 July 2025
Plenty of cosmic wonders are expected to be revealed by the telescope, including countless previously unseen asteroids, exploding supernova stars and millions of distant galaxies.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 June 2025
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Charlotte Observer, 10 July 2025
Today’s top stories The move comes days after President Trump signed a budget that will provide a mass infusion of funds to the Department of Homeland Security to ramp up its immigration enforcement to levels unseen before in the United States.
—James Rainey
follow, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
Tindall, the present assistant at Newcastle, is hardly unseen.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 7 July 2025
Plenty of cosmic wonders are expected to be revealed by the telescope, including countless previously unseen asteroids, exploding supernova stars and millions of distant galaxies.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unseen
Adjective
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The hidden hand worked through patterns embedded deep in the data, patterns that a human mind, or even a less vigilant program, would have missed.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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To uncover the hidden biodiversity of mycorrhizal fungi, an international team of researchers—in partnership with SPUN—used machine learning models to analyze more than 2.8 billion fungal DNA sequences from nearly 25,000 soil samples extracted across 130 different countries.—
Amber X. Chen,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 July 2025
Adjective
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Health is the invisible infrastructure beneath every board-level priority.—
Julian Hayes II,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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This is an invisible parasite, there's no way a consumer's going to be able to see this.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
15 July 2025
Adjective
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These pictures reveal faint details that were previously invisible.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
14 July 2025
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Bell Labs gave me free rein to engineer new systems that would detect those extremely faint signals.—
Jenna Ahart,
Quanta Magazine,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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Publicity is the last thing Iran’s Jews need: Their entire survival strategy has been to lead the most inconspicuous lives possible—and news of detentions is more attention than the community wants.—
Roya Hakakian,
The Atlantic,
10 July 2025
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Keeping a spray bottle of all-purpose cleaner along with a clean, dry cloth hidden away in the bath can make quick (inconspicuous) work of your mid-party touch-up.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
9 July 2025
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But even that latter monster showed only a shimmering red blob of a planet with shifting, indistinct imagery.—
Rod Pyle,
Space.com,
14 July 2025
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In years to come, the memories would have been indistinct.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
Adjective
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And to most of us, that lost time will be imperceptible.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 July 2025
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This is a minute calculation that’s so small as to feel imperceptible and likely happens without much thought at all.—
Megan C. Reynolds,
Time,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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There is a slight risk of excessive rainfall across most of east Central Florida.—
Garfield Hylton,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 July 2025
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Mostly cloudy, with a low around 84. July 18: A slight chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
15 July 2025
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“Unseen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unseen. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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