How to Use unrecorded in a Sentence

unrecorded

adjective
  • Few could read or write, and in much of the world, most lives went unrecorded.
    — Michael Hicks, Indianapolis Star, 24 June 2018
  • The project says the number may be greater as many deaths go unrecorded.
    — Dan Gooding gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 May 2025
  • But that doesn’t mean the vibe has gone completely unrecorded.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Of course, are the stories that have been covered up, left unrecorded, and those that haven’t even been told.
    — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 16 May 2018
  • The plural suggests that more transplants may have gone unrecorded.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • Of those who died, many were buried in communal graves, sometimes unmarked and unrecorded.
    — Ed O’Loughlin, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • The House approved the compromise with an unrecorded voice vote and no speeches on the floor.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Still, that’s a small fraction of the total number because most sink or wash up in remote areas and are unrecorded.
    — Washington Post, 16 June 2019
  • And Coleman in turn sat in, unrecorded alas, with Coltrane’s mighty quartet during that time.
    — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Because no good deed goes unrecorded, a Swiftie caught the exact moment that Swift seemed to clock her boyfriend.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 1 July 2024
  • Amy Winehouse had puzzled out lyrics to an unrecorded song alongside Ginsberg’s lines.
    — New York Times, 7 May 2022
  • And milder symptoms mean kids often don’t get tested and then their infections—and role in any subsequent spread—go unrecorded.
    — Megan Molteni, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020
  • But according to the lawsuit, the deputies then — in an unrecorded interview — told him which photographs to pick.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • The show will include new orchestral arrangements of four unrecorded Thile songs.
    — Michael Norman, cleveland, 28 May 2021
  • In Surrey, a burst water main might have flushed out weak sandstone bedrock beneath the road or caused the collapse of an old, unrecorded sand mine.
    — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • In fact, the subject is so massive that Goodstein — who never lets a fact go unrecorded — is writing three volumes.
    — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 13 June 2019
  • In such a market, the gender of the writer who composed a script could easily have remained as unknown and unrecorded as his—or her—name.
    — Phyllis Rackin, The Atlantic, 8 June 2019
  • Every unrecorded birth means a life without a legal identity and all the rights, services and protections that come with it.
    — Diane Cole, NPR, 29 May 2026
  • Fungi break rocks, nourish plants, seed clouds, cloak our skin and pack our guts, a mostly hidden and unrecorded world living alongside us and within us.
    — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
  • Sometimes, Pearl was called to pick up her daughter early, in an unrecorded informal removal.
    — Sarah Butrymowicz, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • In fact, in the age of ubiquitous cell phone cameras, a secret ballot might be the only way to keep an unrecorded vote truly unrecorded.
    — James D’angelo, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
  • In part because so many Roma deaths went unrecorded, many families don’t know what happened to their relatives.
    — Rachael Bunyan, Time, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Are there specific components that don’t have to wait until month end to start, such as a search for unrecorded liabilities?
    — Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The unusual approach allows even unrecorded events to be dramatized.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Testing is only required when moving herds across state lines, however, so no one knows how many infected herds have gone unrecorded around the country.
    — Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 3 July 2024
  • In India historically, in some states, a huge number of deaths go unrecorded, or are recorded without a cause.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The information in unrecorded meetings begins melting once the meeting ends.
    — Awaneesh Verma, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2026
  • India suffered the highest toll of any country in the world, according to the report released Thursday, but most of the deaths have gone unrecorded.
    — Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 5 May 2022
  • Aid workers caution that the real number is likely much higher as the deaths of many children here, like those of Hassan’s children, go unrecorded.
    — Scott McWhinnie, CNN, 7 July 2022
  • Every unrecorded death means that someone is invisible to the health system, their cause of death a missing piece of data that could prevent future losses.
    — Diane Cole, NPR, 29 May 2026

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