unpublished

adjective un·pub·lished \ ˌən-ˈpə-blisht \

Updated on: 20 May 2018

Definition of unpublished

: not published: such as

a : not released for public distribution or sale

an unpublished book/manuscript

b : having no works that have been published

an unpublished author

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Recent Examples of unpublished from the Web

Yet the company selling the product offered impressive-sounding, though unpublished, studies and charts, alongside glowing testimonials, including one about a preschooler reading Harry Potter books.

— erik vance, Scientific American, "Sorry, Mom and Dad, Toys Cannot Supercharge Your Baby," 15 May 2018
The union study, which officials say is based on previously unpublished UC data, showed that starting wages of blacks and Latinos were about 20% lower than white workers in comparable jobs.

— teresa watanabe, latimes.com, "More than 50,000 UC workers set to strike this week but campuses will remain open," 7 May 2018
Applicants should send an original unpublished article of up to 600 words on any issue in international politics or foreign affairs, a CV and a cover letter to foreignintern@economist.com.

— The Economist, "Foreign internship," 24 Mar. 2018
The sequel is a compilation of Mr Xi’s speeches and writings from August 2014 to September 2017, many of them previously unpublished in English.

— The Economist, "Xi Jinping’s new blockbuster is getting a hard sell," 26 Apr. 2018
The previously unpublished accounts detail the rescue of survivors from the doomed liner.

— james rogers, Fox News, "Rare Titanic rescue letters surface," 19 Apr. 2018
The David Wojnarowicz cover, by Peter Hujar, is from an unpublished contact sheet.

— New York Times, "Seven Icons of New York in the Early ’80s," 17 Apr. 2018
This effort was futile: weeks earlier, InTouch had pulled from its archives an unpublished 2011 interview in which Clifford had described her encounter with Trump, in terms that leave little to the imagination.

— jeffrey toobin, The New Yorker, "What Went Wrong in the Stormy Daniels Case," 17 Mar. 2018
Humans aren't actually reviewing each mass email message: ISPs create internal rules — often unpublished to their users — that will automatically decide whether a message can be sent or not.

— ken colburn, azcentral, "How to send email to groups without being flagged as a 'spammer'," 8 Mar. 2018

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