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unpublished

British  
/ ˌʌnˈpʌblɪʃt /

adjective

  1. not available in print for distribution and sale

  2. having no written work issued for publication

    an unpublished undergraduate

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Anthropic left a web repository unsecured, and a University of Cambridge researcher found an unpublished blog post about a new AI model that was particularly good at conducting cyberattacks.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

An unpublished Crown Office review seen by BBC Scotland in 2024 said a decision not to prosecute the prison officers, made two months after Marshall's death, was "incorrect".

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

Highlights include his drawing to accompany his narrative poem “Old Angel Midnight” and an unpublished story composed when he was a child.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Later, unpublished research proposed a different origin, suggesting she may have come from the Mediterranean, possibly Cyprus.

From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2026

But he also had his own printing press, and he was fortunate that, after he died, Kepler saw his unpublished works into print.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton