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Recent Examples of unfulfilled
There’s also the risk that the promise of a tearful catharsis will go unfulfilled.
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
The heart of the story involves a romantic epiphany that’s also an unspoken recognition of homosexual desire; Michèle’s matchmaking scheme is a vicarious replacement for something that’s doomed to go unfulfilled.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
But as these two former sunshines knit together in a love that has been unfulfilled till now, a new beginning comes out of the ashes of the past.
—Raven Brunner, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
She will be determined not to become a tale of promise unfulfilled.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
The heart of the story involves a romantic epiphany that’s also an unspoken recognition of homosexual desire; Michèle’s matchmaking scheme is a vicarious replacement for something that’s doomed to go unfulfilled.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
But as these two former sunshines knit together in a love that has been unfulfilled till now, a new beginning comes out of the ashes of the past.
—Raven Brunner, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
She will be determined not to become a tale of promise unfulfilled.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfulfilled
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The uprisings moved through the region as the Arab Spring ignited, and tens of millions of frustrated residents went online to coordinate.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Brown has appeared frustrated with his limited role in the offense.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The actor went on to say that he was disappointed to miss the Grey’s Anatomy tribute.—
McKinley Franklin,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Mavs are not too concerned, or disappointed, that their franchise-altering player will make his debut with the team 40 miles west of Dallas.—
Mac Engel
October 2,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Oct. 2025
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In the dramedy, Clooney plays the titular Kelly, a disillusioned movie star having a personal crisis.—
Eric Andersson,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Sy plays Abel Camara, a famous actor who is growing disillusioned with the industry, who meets a struggling waitress in the midst of a divorce.—
Leigh Nordstrom,
Footwear News,
30 Sep. 2025
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The sudden crisis of faith in the American innovation ecosystem has also sparked a fresh debate: Can the European Union seize the moment to attract disenchanted researchers and strengthen its own innovation ecosystem?—
François Candelon,
Fortune,
15 Sep. 2025
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Cavill’s exit didn’t sit well with many already disenchanted fans.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Many female officers were dissatisfied with the arrangement.—
Isadora Wandermurem,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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Among a roster of great supporting performances, the standout is Yeom Hye-ran as a dissatisfied wife whose path crosses with Man-soo repeatedly and with audacious results.—
Vulture Staff,
Vulture,
23 Sep. 2025
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This mix of hypocrisy and corruption, combined with the failure to stop growing Jewish immigration in the 1930s, weakened Husseini’s popularity with the discontented masses.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Right-wing influencers have relentlessly campaigned for these people to lose their jobs, tagging their employers’ online accounts and inundating their places of work with aggrieved emails and phone calls.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
18 Sep. 2025
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Black Rabbit is co-created and primarily written by Zach Baylin and Kate Susman, who respectively wrote and produced the 2024 Justin Kurzel crime drama The Order, in which Law played an aggrieved FBI agent chasing a neo-Nazi group led by Nicholas Hoult.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Sep. 2025
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Thus, unlike disgruntled newspaper readers, whose only resort was to write an angry letter to the editor, radio listeners could now vent their frustrations by going over the heads of a local affiliate and complaining directly to the government.—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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If anything, their Didi and Gogo (Winter plays the former, the more cerebral and anxious of the two, and Reeves the latter, the disgruntled yet tender beta clown) are still a little on the solemn side.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
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