unreported

adjective

un·​re·​port·​ed ˌən-ri-ˈpȯr-təd How to pronounce unreported (audio)
: kept private or hidden : not reported
unreported income
an incident that went largely unreported

Examples of unreported in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Arizona’s existing water law leaves most rural parts of the state unshielded from unlimited and unreported pumping, which has allowed corporate dairies, nut companies and alfalfa growers to tap and accelerate depletion of aquifers that support counties including La Paz and Cochise. The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024 Three years later, the IRS began auditing Rotta after obtaining evidence of unreported foreign financial accounts. Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024 As Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its third year, a growing number of Russian families are putting down roots around Latin America, according to previously unreported residency visa approval data from five countries and interviews with a dozen exiles and experts. Lucinda Elliott and Miguel Lo Bianco, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2024 Previously unreported episodes like this one, from October 2014, form part of the back story to the current crisis embroiling UNRWA, the U.N. relief group in Gaza now sheltering more than half of the enclave’s population. Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024 The trend undoubtedly reflected material anxieties: Youth unemployment, which went unreported for six months, reached 18.4 percent in 2022 and now, with adjusted calculations, sits at 14.9 percent. Christina Knight, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2024 More than 3,600 people were reported abducted in Nigeria last year — the highest number in five years, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, though the true number is likely much higher as many episodes go unreported. Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024 The previously unreported testimony comes as Democrats and some Republicans, have blasted the process by which the impeachment inquiry has unfolded, saying the effort to remove Mayorkas involves a difference over policy and doesn't meet the constitutional standard for impeachment. Luke Barr, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2024 This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Rachel Felder, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1576, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of unreported was in 1576

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“Unreported.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unreported. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

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