as in hidden
not seen or able to be seen
unseen dangers He escaped unseen.
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Recent Examples of unseen
The speaker is Steven Freers, archaeologist and historian, who will present previously unseen documentation and pictures on the ranch, which dates back to 1845.
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
She's seen just out of frame when Linda is lying beside her daughter on the bed, for example, or remains unseen during conversations in the car and at home.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
During the Aces’ celebration, Wilson swapped her shoes out for a special, previously unseen colorway of the Nike A’One in white and black with championship-appropriate metallic gold details.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 11 Oct. 2025
Arnett’s comic timing is a given, but the actor finds previously unseen depths in the ache roiling underneath.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
She's seen just out of frame when Linda is lying beside her daughter on the bed, for example, or remains unseen during conversations in the car and at home.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
During the Aces’ celebration, Wilson swapped her shoes out for a special, previously unseen colorway of the Nike A’One in white and black with championship-appropriate metallic gold details.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 11 Oct. 2025
Arnett’s comic timing is a given, but the actor finds previously unseen depths in the ache roiling underneath.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unseen
Adjective
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Over three hours, small groups navigate a challenging underground world, scrambling over boulders, belly-crawling through narrow passages, and squeezing through tight spaces to discover hidden marble wonders.—
Heide Brandes,
AFAR Media,
15 Oct. 2025
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In other words, the hidden asset is knowledge itself—the connective tissue linking people, data and decisions.—
Adam Mills,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Due to their high metabolism and sensitive respiratory system, these small, yellow songbirds succumbed to the invisible, odorless gas much faster than humans.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Oct. 2025
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However, despite its brilliance, the system remains invisible in optical wavelengths, shrouded by thick layers of dust and gas.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Oct. 2025
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His nephew said that, for decades, his grandparents had kept alive a faint hope that maybe their hero son had just been captured and would one day come gamboling through the front door to the family’s Brookside home.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
10 Oct. 2025
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From this distance, Swift detected the faint ultraviolet glow of hydroxyl (OH), the product of water molecules broken apart by sunlight, the study reports.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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In the lab, his team is developing better, more flexible, and inconspicuous patches to monitor health metrics—think Band-Aid-like patches embedded with sophisticated sensors that can pick up deeper vibrations from the opening and closing of valves in the heart, for example.—
Alice Park,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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San Diegans and tourists standing on the corner of Second Avenue and Market Street may spot an inconspicuous plaque on the sidewalk commemorating the Douglas Hotel, a former establishment for Black visitors and entertainment during the first half of the 20th century.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Their experiences were dismissed as indistinct from men’s, shaped by patriarchal assumptions about heroism.—
Christopher P. Davey,
The Conversation,
6 Oct. 2025
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But The Morning Show does it so needlessly and so predictably, hitting all the standard tropes of this kind of indistinct othering and then tossing the subplot aside.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But about two-thirds of the way through, Roofman makes a quiet, almost imperceptible shift toward melancholy.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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The imperceptible do-si-do of my matter and yours in the air between us.—
Betty Gilpin,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Patrick addressed the tension between his team and the Lions after the game, taking a slight jab at the way Detroit behaves on the field.—
Natasha Dye,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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In more recent trading, there was a slight recovery that brought values back over 65 cents.—
SJ Guest Editorial,
Sourcing Journal,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Unseen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unseen. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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