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unpublished work

American  

noun

Law.
  1. a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.


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Before the landmark proof even appeared online, social media blew up with suspicion that OpenAI’s model had taken the groundbreaking, unpublished work of humans, which the company denies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

In additional, unpublished work, the team found that the same diet helped regeneration after treatment with 5-fluorouracil, a chemotherapy drug commonly used for colon and pancreatic cancers that can also harm intestinal tissue.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2025

This did much to preserve her memory, but what about her unpublished work?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

Chandler completed no major books after the death of Cissy Pascal Chandler, but he did summon a brief, unpublished work, in a format he was not known for mastering: poetry.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

Nobody knows whether the thirty-three-year-old Leibniz encountered Newton’s unpublished work during his trip to England.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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