unfulfilled

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Recent Examples of unfulfilled In the first quarter, Nvidia said the restrictions cost it around $7 billion in charges from unfulfilled sales and lost revenue. Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025 Turner in particular was a ferocious tornado, playing an unfulfilled woman spewing out blistering contempt for her husband. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2025 Foreign policy promises, particularly regarding Russia and Ukraine, remain largely unfulfilled, highlighting a disconnect between campaign rhetoric and tangible results. Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025 These realities show that the promises of democracy remain unfulfilled for many. Kevin A. Slayton Sr, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unfulfilled
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfulfilled
Adjective
  • Xu said, noting that frustrated clients began moving funds to Japan, Hong Kong and Dubai instead.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Service is also a realistic story about a frustrated middle-aged former journalist and aspiring novelist idling in an ultra-low-paying job.
    Susan Coll September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Astounded, confused disappointed?
    Steve Sedgwick, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
  • These are just a couple of people (both actors are wonderfully natural) a bit disappointed by life, who find each other at the right time.
    Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Lellouche stars as unlikely hero Zem, a disillusioned Zone 3 cop with an idealistic militant past, who is teamed with haughty, high-flying Zone 2 officer Salia, played by Adèle Exarchopoulos, after a leading politician is assassinated in Zone 1.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Nathan Allen, a New College alumnus who served as Corcoran’s vice president of strategy and special projects in 2023 and 2024, said his experience inside the project left him disillusioned and convinced that the college’s future is not secure under the current administration or state control.
    Alice Herman, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • When that happens, disenchanted moderates will radicalize, and income inequality will detonate.
    Matt K. Lewis, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Sandler is once again in babysitter mode, this time as a disenchanted guy tasked with taking care of his niece and nephew.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 26 July 2025
Adjective
  • However, the players union, the Professional Women’s Hockey League Players Association, dissatisfied with the PHF, formed its own league, the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL).
    Chris Deubert, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Others are dissatisfied with how their school districts are doing academically.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Protests have continued throughout the year, including ahead of the country’s 80th independence anniversary in August, when many discontented citizens raised pirate flags in lieu of or alongside the national flag to voice their discontent.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The gleefully gutsy horror movie (in theaters now) stars real-life married actors Alison Brie and Dave Franco as Millie and Tim, a complacent, discontented couple whose bodies start to fuse after a hiking trip gone haywire.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • Jones is a revelation as the aggrieved niece who’s forced to care for her uncle’s kids.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The always watchable Zem (Other People’s Children) is strong as an obsessive intellectual whose theories drive him to push others to the brink, while Valeria Golino (a requisite for any Italian festival film these days) shows up as the aggrieved mother of a victim.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Williams, meanwhile, insists that there were enough disgruntled Native Americans in the area to stage an upcoming boycott of the building’s primary tenant, a Japanese restaurant named Ebiko.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In terms of this series’ overall plot, the one significant takeaway from this extended flashback is the information that the Maginot was actually sabotaged by a disgruntled employee named Petrovich (Enzo Cilenti), who was secretly in contact with Kavalier.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Unfulfilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfulfilled. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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