unseen
Americanadjective
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not seen; unperceived; unobserved; invisible.
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recognized or comprehended without prior study, as a written text or musical score.
adjective
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not observed or perceived; invisible
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(of passages of writing) not previously seen or prepared
noun
Etymology
Origin of unseen
Example Sentences
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Bush boasted of building a broad coalition unseen in decades.
From Barron's
Brent crude per barrel climbed into the $80s this week—a price level unseen for more than a year and a half.
From Barron's
The “Romeo and Juliet” director’s research team stumbled upon this unseen footage in an underground salt mine in Kansas while making the 2022 biopic starring Austin Butler.
From Los Angeles Times
Like others in the exhibition, she shared the convictions that the source of art was the unconscious and that the artist’s role was to reveal the unseen, not to depict the known.
“Man on the Run” is chock-full of unseen archival footage — the kind that McCartney aficionados will relish as Neville paints a revealing picture of the musician’s post-Beatles challenges.
From Salon
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