unanswered
adjective
un·an·swered
ˌən-ˈan(t)-sərd 
1
: not answered
unanswered letters
2
: scored in succession during a period in which an opponent fails to score
scored 20 unanswered points in the last quarter
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Calls to the company by NBC News went unanswered.
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Peter Guo, NBC news, 28 Nov. 2025
Carroll noted investigators have not yet determined who fired the shots that wounded the suspect, leaving unanswered questions about the sequence of events.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
November 25, 2025 Jenny Wolfram founded BrandBastion in 2013 after noticing that many companies’ social media pages were teeming with spam, hostile messages, and unanswered comments—all of which chipped away at customer trust.
—Harvard Business Review, 25 Nov. 2025
That often means that job postings — particularly the vague posting that require discussion to suss out the details — go unanswered.
—Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2025
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Peter Guo, NBC news, 28 Nov. 2025
Carroll noted investigators have not yet determined who fired the shots that wounded the suspect, leaving unanswered questions about the sequence of events.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
November 25, 2025 Jenny Wolfram founded BrandBastion in 2013 after noticing that many companies’ social media pages were teeming with spam, hostile messages, and unanswered comments—all of which chipped away at customer trust.
—Harvard Business Review, 25 Nov. 2025
That often means that job postings — particularly the vague posting that require discussion to suss out the details — go unanswered.
—Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Unanswered.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unanswered. Accessed 3 Dec. 2025.
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