unassembled

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Recent Examples of unassembled Like the humongous going-out-of-business furniture store where Mother, Couch takes place, the movie is a collection of intriguing pieces that mostly sit there unassembled or out of context, their potential unfulfilled. Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023 Altogether, 53 An-124s were built (including the prototype), with parts for two more left unassembled. Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2023 These stands normally come unassembled with tons of screws, washers, nuts, and bolts. Travis Smola, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023 San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin filed suit in August against three major manufacturers and shippers of the unassembled guns, seeking to halt their sales in a city where such weapons accounted for nearly half the guns recovered from homicides sites last year. Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Oct. 2021 See All Example Sentences for unassembled
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unassembled
Adjective
  • Whispers have long circulated among art collectors that a third series of Christophers exists unfinished, which could potentially go for millions if they were ever completed and put on the market.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Painful memories like his relationship with Christopher, which left Julian rich but scarred; his work began to suffer along with their romance, to the point that the last eight pieces of his signature series have remained unfinished in a dusty corner of his home for the last 30 years.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Hawaiian specimen was about 4 feet tall, while an incomplete measurement of the coral found near the Mariana Trench was about 20 inches long, according to Watling and the study.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Those who believe the Shroud to be authentic, however, argued that the 3D-modeling study was incomplete.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • When Taofeek was taken from us in 1999, his school uniform, bag, and shoes were discovered by what was then an uncompleted building.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Given his erratic career, punctuated by long hiatuses and abounding in uncompleted, delayed, and jinxed projects—his filmography teems with the abject terms inachevé and non tourné (unfinished and unmade)—the final verdict remains inconclusive.
    James Quandt, The New York Review of Books, 31 July 2025

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“Unassembled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unassembled. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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