How to Use unknown in a Sentence
- The victim's attacker was unknown to her.
- Much remains unknown about his early life.
- An unknown number of cases go unreported.
- Her music was previously unknown outside of Asia.
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The cause of the fire is unknown.
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Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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The cause of the odor is unknown.
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Dejanay Booth-Singleton,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
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How this will play out is unknown.
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Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
1 Mar. 2026
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The sword ends up in parts unknown.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
4 June 2026
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The cause of the fire is still unknown.
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Ashley Portillo,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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The cause of the crash is unknown at this time.
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Katie Houlis,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
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But for the rest, the cause is unknown.
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Sara Moniuszko,
USA Today,
20 Feb. 2026
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The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.
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Christine Sloan,
CBS News,
19 Apr. 2026
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The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.
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Katie Houlis,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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The cause of the fire was unknown at that time.
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Molly Gibbs,
Mercury News,
23 May 2026
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The cause of the crash is unknown at this time.
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Elyssa Kaufman,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2026
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The cause of the crash is unknown at this time.
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Elyssa Kaufman,
CBS News,
20 June 2026
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The cause of the crash is unknown at this time.
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Elyssa Kaufman,
CBS News,
23 May 2026
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The peak wind gust, path width and length are all unknown.
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Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
13 Apr. 2026
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The status of the crew is unknown at this time.
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James Laporta,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
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The why and the how-much would remain unknown.
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Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Mar. 2026
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How that’s going to play out is unknown.
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Bruce Finley,
Denver Post,
19 Apr. 2026
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The student’s cause of death is unknown at this time.
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Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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The cause of the crash remains unknown.
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Chelsea Hylton,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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The source of the screenshot is unknown.
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Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
23 Jan. 2026
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The reason for the boos is unknown.
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Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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His status was unknown at this time.
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Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
28 May 2026
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Yet the small / soul can’t reach the surface and goes unknown.
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Literary Hub,
2 Mar. 2026
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The cause of the collapse is unknown.
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Dejanay Booth-Singleton,
CBS News,
7 Feb. 2026
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The fate of the rest remains unknown.
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ABC News,
19 Feb. 2026
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The where and the when remain unknown.
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Jonathan Bullington,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
- The director cast an unknown in the lead role.
- We're facing too many unknowns.
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There are still a lot of unknowns.
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Morgan Korn,
ABC News,
10 Aug. 2025
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And there’s still a lot of unknowns.
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Molly Castle Work,
Twin Cities,
21 Oct. 2025
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There were just too many unknowns.
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Jed Brewer,
Rolling Stone,
4 Nov. 2025
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Still, there are a lot of unknowns.
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Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Then there was the great unknown of … what next?
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Kansas City Star,
1 Apr. 2026
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There are just so many ups and downs and so many unknowns.
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Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
28 Sep. 2025
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There are just so many ups and downs and so many unknowns.
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Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
18 Dec. 2025
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There are just so many ups and downs and so many unknowns.
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Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
19 Dec. 2025
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There’s a lot of unknowns as to how that would play out.
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Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Aug. 2025
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And you’re kept in a state of the unknown the whole time.
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Rachel Handler,
Vulture,
18 May 2026
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There were a lot of unknowns in the movie by design.
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Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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There are still a lot of unknowns yet to be researched.
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Jay Kakade
december 20,
New Atlas,
20 Dec. 2025
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On one wall was an oil painting of a ship, artist unknown.
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Alice Gregory,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
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There are a lot of unknowns with what’s going on right now.
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Aaron Portzline,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
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Black is the color of the unknown.
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Mikey O'Connell,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Mar. 2026
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The unknown is why Burns pushed for the city to change its vote.
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Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
17 June 2026
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There's too many unknowns here for just a spot treatment.
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Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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The great unknown, of course, is the nature of the split.
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Andy Behrens,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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There’s one unknown that can put a damper on the season.
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Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
28 Jan. 2026
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Will the Chiefs still be able to pull it off with so many unknowns?
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Chandler Boese,
Kansas City Star,
6 Oct. 2025
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So far this season, there have been too many unknowns in both camps.
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Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
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Of course, there are still plenty of unknowns.
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Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2026
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With all this in mind and so many unknowns, what is an investor to do?
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Brian Sullivan,
CNBC,
15 Apr. 2026
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That's part of the task of being an artist, to know the unknown.
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Caterina De Biasio,
Vogue,
23 Feb. 2026
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But how much the state could bring in, and how early, is a huge unknown.
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Sean Maguire,
Anchorage Daily News,
29 Jan. 2023
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But also, there is the unknown.
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Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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No coach can be a fan of practicing against the unknown.
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Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
16 Mar. 2026
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There was this complete unknown.
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Bruce Feldman,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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