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unpublished work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In additional, unpublished work, the team found that the same diet helped regeneration after treatment with 5-fluorouracil, a chemotherapy drug commonly used for colon and pancreatic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

Chandler completed no major books after the death of Cissy Pascal Chandler, but he did summon a brief, unpublished work, in a format he was not known for mastering: poetry.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

One reporter called Giles' unpublished work a precious collection of folas e contados, stories and songs; another researcher referred to her work as the most "extensive collection of original data in Sardinia."

From Salon May 28, 2023

They’re still taking donations, hoping to build a trust to send Ingram’s 15-year-old younger sister to college, maintain her published and unpublished work and advocate for improvements to organ donor programs.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 23, 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Nobody knows whether the thirty-three-year-old Leibniz encountered Newton’s unpublished work during his trip to England.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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