unmarried
Britishadjective
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not married
an unmarried mother
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films denoting a print of a cinematograph film in which the picture and sound recordings are on separate reels
Example Sentences
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Divorced spouses likely also qualify if the marriage lasted at least 10 years, they are currently unmarried, among other requirements.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
State Farm, California’s largest auto insurer, charged the same for married and unmarried drivers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Despite a significant proportion of American births to single mothers, the number of unmarried women giving birth has actually been decreasing for the past decade, with the decline largely driven by teenagers and working-class women.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
An estimated 185,000 babies were taken from their mothers in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, with thousands of women pressured into giving up their children because they were unmarried.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Now I was twenty-seven, Betsie in her mid-–thirties, and I knew that this was the way it was going to be: Betsie and I the unmarried daughters living at home in the Beje.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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