as in unknown
not widely known
an unsung hero of the Holocaust
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Recent Examples of unsung
The real unsung hero of this season, though?
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Katrina Cossey, Parents, 25 Sep. 2025
Orta San Giulio Tucked away in northern Piedmont, Lake Orta is an unsung lakeside escape in Italy.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2025
Who is the unsung hero of this movie?
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2025
Ena Hartman was an unsung trailblazer of Hollywood whose smaller roles in 1960s media productions helped create a path for Black people in film and television.
—Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2025
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Katrina Cossey, Parents, 25 Sep. 2025
Orta San Giulio Tucked away in northern Piedmont, Lake Orta is an unsung lakeside escape in Italy.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2025
Who is the unsung hero of this movie?
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2025
Ena Hartman was an unsung trailblazer of Hollywood whose smaller roles in 1960s media productions helped create a path for Black people in film and television.
—Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unsung
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsung
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Could its detection on Venus mean there is life in its clouds, or is some inorganic chemistry, unknown on Earth, producing it?—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Heavily inebriated and with several different drugs racing through his system, 19-year-old Jacob storms into the confrontation and clocks an unknown man hard, sending him to the ground.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Sep. 2025
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This obscure rule bars federal funding for mental institutions with more than 16 beds, which critics say is a major barrier to expanding capacity.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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But what these murky recommendations largely obscure is the data, which overwhelmingly supports the use of COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy, as evidenced by a massive analysis set to be presented this weekend at an American Academy of Pediatrics conference.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Unsung.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsung. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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