as in countless
too many to be counted
untold generations have lived and died in this ancient land
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Recent Examples of untold
This goes with her theory of uncovering untold stories.
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Violet Bucaro, AZCentral.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Stories that were going untold, voices that were long ignored, perspectives that went unexplored fill some of the spaces that opened up when the too homogenous, too insular, too slow to evolve publications started to shrink.
—Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2025
The alerts sparked frantic evacuation efforts in Hawaii, where many recall the horror of the catastrophic tsunamis that caused unimaginable damage and untold loss of life around the Indian Ocean in 2004 and in Japan in 2011.
—Will Ripley, CNN Money, 31 July 2025
Flooding on the roads has also blocked the lanes at the Throgs Neck Bridge in Queens, causing untold delays in road traffic.
—Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
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Violet Bucaro, AZCentral.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Stories that were going untold, voices that were long ignored, perspectives that went unexplored fill some of the spaces that opened up when the too homogenous, too insular, too slow to evolve publications started to shrink.
—Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2025
The alerts sparked frantic evacuation efforts in Hawaii, where many recall the horror of the catastrophic tsunamis that caused unimaginable damage and untold loss of life around the Indian Ocean in 2004 and in Japan in 2011.
—Will Ripley, CNN Money, 31 July 2025
Flooding on the roads has also blocked the lanes at the Throgs Neck Bridge in Queens, causing untold delays in road traffic.
—Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for untold
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Astronomers believe this record-breaking speed is the result of countless gravitational encounters during its interstellar voyage.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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That’s just a bit of an issue amid the team’s seemingly countless (and ever-growing) list of on-field deficiencies.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Untold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untold. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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