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adjective un·built \ ˌən-ˈbilt \

Definition of unbuilt

1 :not built :not yet constructed

2 :not built on

an unbuilt plot

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The as-yet unbuilt Ramona Senior Apartments will be for persons age 55 and older earning no more than 60 percent of the Area Median Income, which is $35,700 for one person and $52,900 for two people.

— alex riggins and james r. riffel, Ramona Sentinel, "County puts up $25M for affordable housing," 29 June 2017
But in the ghostworld of imaginary structures, every unbuilt building stands.

— josephine livingstone, New Republic, "The Unrealized Visions of Frank Lloyd Wright," 22 June 2017
The fate of about 1,000 unbuilt homes is now uncertain.

— joshua mitnick, latimes.com, "Hamas is feeling the pain of Qatar's crisis, and looking to Egypt for help," 19 June 2017
Another, which explores the conservation of Wright's models for New York's spiraling Guggenheim Museum and his unbuilt proposal for the St. Mark's residential tower in New York, is a surprising gem.

— blair kamin, chicagotribune.com, "A new window into Wright," 11 June 2017
By early April, the festival team finally set up at Roker Point, a largely unbuilt housing development on Great Exuma that borders a Sandals resort.

— the new york times, NOLA.com, "How the Fyre music festival turned into an epic failure," 22 May 2017
By early April, the festival team finally set up at Roker Point, a largely unbuilt housing development on Great Exuma that borders a Sandals resort.

— the new york times, NOLA.com, "How the Fyre music festival turned into an epic failure," 22 May 2017
By early April, the festival team finally set up at Roker Point, a largely unbuilt housing development on Great Exuma that borders a Sandals resort.

— the new york times, NOLA.com, "How the Fyre music festival turned into an epic failure," 22 May 2017
By early April, the festival team finally set up at Roker Point, a largely unbuilt housing development on Great Exuma that borders a Sandals resort.

— the new york times, NOLA.com, "How the Fyre music festival turned into an epic failure," 22 May 2017

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