unrealized
not made real or actual; not resulting in accomplishment, as a task or aim: unrealized ambitions.
not known or suspected: unrealized talent.
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Yet even today, racial and ethnic equality remains unrealized, and racial entitlement remains a potent force.
No, the Vikings Did Not Discover America. Here's Why That Myth is Problematic | Gordon Campbell | June 29, 2021 | TimeThis tax is supposed to give the government one last chance to get a piece of all those unrealized gains and other assets the wealthiest Americans accumulate over their lifetimes.
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax | by Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel | June 8, 2021 | ProPublicaMany titans of the 21st century sit on mountains of what are known as unrealized gains, the total size of which fluctuates each day as stock prices rise and fall.
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax | by Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel | June 8, 2021 | ProPublicaThe country’s distinct lack of greatness, the argument goes, is not a matter of unrealized ideals.
We teach students how to understand the U.S., not to love it — or hate it | Daniel Immerwahr | December 23, 2020 | Washington PostSouthern California, of course, fascinates as we wait and wait for it to spice the playoff with West Coast flavor and as it deals with what Ryan Kartje of the Los Angeles Times described as “an ever-lingering sense of unrealized potential.”
In this unhinged year, the CFP selection committee faces an even more indecipherable task | Chuck Culpepper | November 23, 2020 | Washington Post
With its extensive coastlines, Iran has the potential to promote this kind tourism but it is, to say the least, unrealized.
Operation Wholesome Sea: Iran Coast Guard Forces Women Off Beaches | IranWire | May 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was a promise unrealized until 2012, when construction finally began.
The Largest Church in the World Has The Fewest Worshippers | Nina Strochlic | January 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat was at least the pitch, which went mostly unrealized, according to Gezari.
Send in the Marines—and the Anthropologists too? | John Kael Weston | August 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMaugham once confided to Christopher Isherwood his unrealized wish, when he turned seventy, to return to India and study Shankara.
When Susan Lucci earned her first Emmy after 18 unrealized nominations, I stood and cheered.
But the scheme has gone, these sixty years, to the cloudy nether-world of glorious dreams unrealized.
Lola Montez | Edmund B. d'AuvergneOnce, their aim appeared to be a noble possibility, struggling still and unrealized, but unrefuted.
Studies of Christianity | James MartineauWe cannot, of course, be content with an unrealized unity of the Church.
Some Christian Convictions | Henry Sloane CoffinBut the way in which they received these last tossed pebbles of metaphor showed him unrealized profundities.
The Shadow of Life | Anne Douglas SedgwickAt this moment, wealth seemed within my grasp, and in the next I might be mourning over or cursing my unrealized hopes.
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British Dictionary definitions for unrealized
unrealised
/ (ʌnˈrɪəˌlaɪzd) /
(of an ambition, hope, goal, etc) not attained or brought to fruition
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