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Perhaps more unnerving, there were now bouts of forgetfulness — checks unmailed, appointments missed and conversations forgotten.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2016

These long letters, unfinished and unmailed, are sendups of an intellectual’s effort to understand human behavior by means of the conceptual apparatus of Mortimer Adler’s Great Books.

From The New Yorker • May 4, 2015

There is even a book filled with letters that Truman wrote in moments of pique, then wisely filed away unmailed.

From Time Magazine Archive

While authorities debated who should raid the gang's headquarters, the sharpers fled with 10,000 printed letters yet unmailed.

From Time Magazine Archive

While I was on my second cup of coffee, I took out my unmailed letter to Sister Irma and reread it.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger