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
According to Wallace, the threshold is more than $200,000 for unmarried people and $400,000 for married taxpayers.
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Melissa Willets, Parents, 21 Feb. 2026
He was born in the Jim Crow South to Helen Burns, then an unmarried 16-year-old, and her married-next-door neighbor, Noah Robinson.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
His mother, Helen Burns Struggs, was 16 and unmarried and gave him the name Jesse Burns.
—Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026
The city has more unmarried women than men, with a ratio of about 93 men for every 100 women.
—Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 9 Feb. 2026
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Melissa Willets, Parents, 21 Feb. 2026
He was born in the Jim Crow South to Helen Burns, then an unmarried 16-year-old, and her married-next-door neighbor, Noah Robinson.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
His mother, Helen Burns Struggs, was 16 and unmarried and gave him the name Jesse Burns.
—Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026
The city has more unmarried women than men, with a ratio of about 93 men for every 100 women.
—Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 9 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmarried
Adjective
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Instead of a single physical server, HostArmada provides dedicated resources on a redundant cloud platform, meaning your data is synced across a high-speed SSD network.—
Gabriel Zamora,
PC Magazine,
8 Mar. 2026
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This is suggested by the fact that married men live longer than single men.—
Deborah Treisman,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
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Born in 1941 to an unwed teenage mother in Greenville, South Carolina, Jackson turned heads early with his fierce drive and athletic ability.—
Mark Whitaker,
CBS News,
22 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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“Unmarried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmarried. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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