unaccounted for
idiom
—used to say that what happened to someone or something is not known
Many people were unaccounted for after the disaster.
A great deal of money remains unaccounted for.
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That leaves roughly $310,000 in public money allocated to the A3 Foundation but unaccounted for in the Herald’s reporting.
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Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Troopers have received secondhand reports of people who were unaccounted for in Kipnuk and are continuing efforts to confirm and verify how many people are missing.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Before the latest hostage bodies were handed over to the Red Cross, Hamas had handed over four coffins of dead hostages, leaving at least 23 presumed dead and one unaccounted for, stillin the Gaza Strip.
—Maayan Lubell, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Earlier Monday, the Alaska State Troopers said that the three people who were still unaccounted for were residents of Kwigillingok.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
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Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Troopers have received secondhand reports of people who were unaccounted for in Kipnuk and are continuing efforts to confirm and verify how many people are missing.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Before the latest hostage bodies were handed over to the Red Cross, Hamas had handed over four coffins of dead hostages, leaving at least 23 presumed dead and one unaccounted for, stillin the Gaza Strip.
—Maayan Lubell, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Earlier Monday, the Alaska State Troopers said that the three people who were still unaccounted for were residents of Kwigillingok.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Unaccounted for.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unaccounted%20for. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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