as in single
not married
a girl who swore she'd remain unmarried for her whole life
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Recent Examples of unmarried
The Carnival mandated at the time that Queen candidates be unmarried, a rule that persisted until the early 1990s.
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Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 16 Jan. 2026
So yes, Mary might have remained unmarried without George.
—Margaret Heidenry, Vanity Fair, 24 Dec. 2025
But Jo, the aspiring writer, is at the center of the narrative, as the sister trying to imagine a life outside of what is expected of her as a young, unmarried woman.
—Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 22 Dec. 2025
Under Georgia law, unmarried fathers do not automatically have parental rights, even when paternity is biologically confirmed.
—Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
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Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 16 Jan. 2026
So yes, Mary might have remained unmarried without George.
—Margaret Heidenry, Vanity Fair, 24 Dec. 2025
But Jo, the aspiring writer, is at the center of the narrative, as the sister trying to imagine a life outside of what is expected of her as a young, unmarried woman.
—Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 22 Dec. 2025
Under Georgia law, unmarried fathers do not automatically have parental rights, even when paternity is biologically confirmed.
—Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmarried
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The officer fired a single shot from his handgun, striking Sosa-Celis in his right thigh.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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Raise the minimum wage, ban private equity and institutional investors from buying single family homes, provide incentives to emerging industries like clean energy to bring new high paying jobs to Texas.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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This will be a tale of crime and punishment told in flashback, rewinding to Becket’s mother, an heiress excised from an eleven-figure fortune for giving birth as an unwed teenager.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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He was born to an unwed teenage mom in Greenville, South Carolina, during the Jim Crow era but rose to become a civil rights icon and a groundbreaking politician who mounted two electrifying runs for the presidency in the 1980s.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Unmarried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmarried. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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