unsold
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Private equity faces a global bottleneck of nearly 33,000 unsold portfolio companies, straining fundraising and investor relations.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
In a good sign for the economy, a trio of reports on business investment, home building and inventories of unsold goods all showed surprising strength in March.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026
Eleclink is already tracking 4% ahead of full-year consensus, with 11% of capacity still unsold, Cullinane adds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Tickets also remain available for more than a third of the 72 group-stage games and many of the expensive hospitality packages are unsold.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
By mid-December, Haldar cleared all the unsold merchandise off the shelves of his beauty shop and hauled them in boxes up to the storage room.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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