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

Definition of unpublished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an unpublished book/manuscript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an unpublished author

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Heart disease patients who become depressed are twice as likely to die within the following decade as other patients, according to an unpublished study presented in March at the American College of Cardiology’s annual meeting.

— liz szabo, Kaiser Health News, "Depression Among Heart Attack Survivors Can Be Deadly, Yet Is Often Ignored," 20 July 2017
Recent unpublished data, however, shows that shortened summer breaks at year-round schools mitigate learning loss and are good for all students, Hornak said.

— kirsten clark, The Courier-Journal, "Could longer summer be in store for Indiana families? Year-round schools may be on way out," 19 July 2017
According to Publisher’s Weekly, an unpublished manuscript from the genius behind Where the Wild Things Are has been discovered in the author’s archives.

— meghan overdeep, Southern Living, "Lost Book by Where the Wild Things Are Author Maurice Sendak Discovered," 13 July 2017
But as confirmed by Taquet and an unpublished field map from the expedition, the Venice Ouranosaurus contains at least part of what paleontologists call a paratype –

— Scientific American Blog Network, "On the Trail of a Dinosaur Sail," 10 July 2017
In 1922, for example, Hadley Richardson, first wife of author Ernest Hemingway, left a suitcase of his unpublished stories – including their carbons – on a train.

— ronnie polaneczky, Philly.com, "Crowdsourced confessions soothe feelings of stupidity," 15 June 2017
An unpublished study of more than 2,400 children with autism suggests that, compared with other children on the spectrum, those who carry certain rare mutations strongly linked to autism are more likely to have motor problems.

— nicholette zeliadt, Scientific American, "Autism in Motion: Could Motor Problems Trigger Social Ones?," 5 June 2017
Should users trust a company that so failed to grasp the essential intimacy of an unpublished thought with a line into their brains?

— sam biddle, The Intercept, "Facebook Won’t Say If They’ll Use Your Brain Activity for Advertisements," 22 May 2017
What did this unpublished book manuscript unlock about Obama?

— cody delistraty, Longreads, "The Real Obama: An Interview with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographer David J. Garrow," 9 May 2017

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