unfilled

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Recent Examples of unfilled Trump’s foreign-relations team demurred; there is a narrow bench on Africa in the current Administration, and the top Bureau of African Affairs job at the State Department remains unfilled. Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2025 If that void is left unfilled, other actors or institutions may seek to impose less desirable and even dangerous forms of rule. Victor Cha, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2025 For founders and investors, opportunities extend beyond addressing the talent gap (expected to reach 3.5 million unfilled positions by 2025). Mala Ramakrishnan, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025 If left unfilled, holes are extremely dangerous to both sea turtles and humans. Lexie Beach, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for unfilled
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfilled
Adjective
  • Discovery representatives declined to make executives available.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 6 July 2025
  • In a time when the suffering and seemingly hopeless prospects of America’s poor are known to all who have eyes to see, the only fig leaf available to hide the obscenity of this bill is the old partisan charge of waste, fraud and abuse.
    Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
Adjective
  • The development team framed the deal as a way for the city to create more low-income housing, dump the financial burden of the unoccupied property and secure a money-making property at the end of the lease.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2025
  • The lawsuit, filed by Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity in the Southern District of Florida, aims to pause construction at the federal site, which is being built at the reportedly unoccupied Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 29 June 2025
Adjective
  • Compared to an unfurnished rental, our homes eliminate upfront costs for furniture, utilities, and setup, saving renters thousands of dollars.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The apartment is being sold unfurnished, though both platform beds, which were custom-built for the space, are included in the sale.
    Michael Kaminer, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Equally hollow are the claims that his proposal is low risk.
    Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
  • Most of the other obvious yuks are flashy and hollow: Of course M3GAN will dance.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Officials reminded the public of the dangers of keeping an animal inside an unattended vehicle, especially on a summer day.
    Megan Forrester, ABC News, 1 July 2025
  • At some point the child, as a toddler, picks up an unattended lightsaber, pushes the button, and is killed instantly.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • There are dozens of uninhabited islands in the Halifax River near Daytona Beach, created when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged the river in the 1950s.
    Bob Morris, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2025
  • Two are in the southernmost city of Rafah — now mostly uninhabited — and all three are in Israeli military zones that are off-limits to independent media.
    Mohammad Jahjouh, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2025

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“Unfilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfilled. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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