as in hidden
not seen or able to be seen
unseen dangers He escaped unseen.
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Recent Examples of unseen
This scenario illustrates the fundamental challenge of psychological safety in the workplace: when race is ignored or avoided, Black and Brown employees often feel unseen and undervalued.
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Ashley B. Stewart, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Far easier to invent a Trump who isn’t there, a canny savant whose policy lurches are driven by some unseen strategic logic.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2025
For vacant properties that aren’t condemned, firefighters must wait for a report about the conditions at the back of a building, which could reveal dangers unseen from the front.
—Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2025
Their usual intent when capturing photographic evidence of previously unseen creatures is data collection.
—Carlos Aguilar, IndieWire, 8 Mar. 2025
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Ashley B. Stewart, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Far easier to invent a Trump who isn’t there, a canny savant whose policy lurches are driven by some unseen strategic logic.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2025
For vacant properties that aren’t condemned, firefighters must wait for a report about the conditions at the back of a building, which could reveal dangers unseen from the front.
—Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2025
Their usual intent when capturing photographic evidence of previously unseen creatures is data collection.
—Carlos Aguilar, IndieWire, 8 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unseen
Adjective
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Using this technique, researchers could rapidly trace odd outputs back to specific neural patterns associated with hidden objectives.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
14 Mar. 2025
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Mace claimed to have found a hidden camera on a property owned by her ex-fiance and Musgrave that had intimate photos of women that were taken without their knowledge or consent.—
Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Bureau staff spot tricks and traps that are invisible to the untrained eye.—
Mike Calhoun,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Mar. 2025
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Instead, genetics and environment work in a dynamic loop, each shaping the other in constant, invisible, and powerful ways that ripple across our lives.—
Dalton Conley,
TIME,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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My duties typically involved being sent to the nearby New York Public Library to hunt down some faint memory scratching at Carter’s brain.—
Seth Abramovitch,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Mar. 2025
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Most of the files are scans of documents, and some are blurred or have become faint or difficult to read in the decades since Kennedy's assassination.—
Joel Shannon,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Just make sure to test the shaving cream on a small, inconspicuous area of the material before applying in larger or more prominent areas.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
16 Mar. 2025
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Though inconspicuous—the largest reach only about one millimeter in length—tardigrades are incredibly resilient.—
Paulina Rowińska,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The play is now set in a purposely indistinct time period.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
2 Mar. 2025
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Often, the ad is for an indistinct mobile game featuring a woman with a freezing baby who must choose between spending her fifty gold coins on either building a working fireplace or repairing a broken window that’s letting in an icy breeze.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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By sinking the building into the ground, the architects have created a space that remains almost imperceptible from above.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Mar. 2025
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And the sorts of dollar amounts for this work — for wildlife conservation, overall — are almost imperceptible compared to other federal line items.—
Benji Jones,
Vox,
26 Feb. 2025
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Here, again, there were slight differences in the responses when broken down by party affiliation.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
20 Mar. 2025
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Like the inclusion of the new music, the omission of the prince storyline shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has been paying even the slightest attention to the controversies plaguing the production of Snow White for the past few years.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Unseen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unseen. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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