How to Use unrealized in a Sentence

unrealized

adjective
  • None of them have yet opted out of the still-unrealized 2020 Big Ten season.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2020
  • His dream is very much alive, but very much unrealized.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • These unrealized gains would be taxed as if they had been sold at death or when transferred.
    Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • In 1999, Knievel cleared a portion of the Grand Canyon, which was an unrealized dream of his father's.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The first $1 million of unrealized gains ($2 million in the case of a married couple) would be exempt from the new tax.
    Ryan Ellis, National Review, 17 July 2021
  • In each of the stories, the characters face some painful truths about themselves and their unrealized dreams.
    Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 9 Mar. 2022
  • More to the point, at any time in the past three years, anyone could have calculated how much the wealthy would have owed if unrealized gains were taxed.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 18 June 2021
  • Those hopes went unrealized as substance abuse led to her death.
    al, 24 Feb. 2020
  • But that part of the vision remains unrealized at this moment in time.
    Gilda Barabino, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The unrealized and unhappy are always in search of a cause to distract themselves from the problems of their lives.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • This brilliant book gives faces and names to the journey toward freedom, and the unrealized promise that holds.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Between a father and son, between dreams realized and unrealized, between the past and the present and what gets us from one to the other.
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021
  • By historical standards, Biden’s plan to tax unrealized gains at death and levy the estate tax at the same time is quite unique.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 1 May 2021
  • His unrealized losses widened by about $130 million from three months before, with most of the deficit linked to the Latin America fund.
    Takahiko Hyuga, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2023
  • So the polling and then that question, Kamala has an unrealized upside.
    Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • About 10% of banks had worse levels of unrealized losses than SVB.
    Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
  • His many victims’ lives were cut short at his hands, their dreams unrealized and stories left untold, Longhurst said.
    Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 15 Feb. 2024
  • This is the soundtrack to unrealized teenage angst and apologetic chaos—of throwing chairs and then carefully putting them back in place and scrubbing the scuff marks off the floor.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 Sep. 2019
  • As the youth movement looks to break through in a big way, Friday is among the veterans who will in turn be pushed to reach their own unrealized potential.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Months later, the cake stand sits, still inside the box, a sharp reminder of your unrealized ambition.
    Mackenzie Fegan, Bon Appétit, 14 Oct. 2020
  • For some banks, the unrealized losses brought on by the Fed's sudden interest-rate hikes will stay on paper.
    Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • One of the things Cates Jr. is proudest of is building an endowment, the Fund for the Future, which is on track to reach its goal of $25 million next year — one of the unrealized dreams of his father.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • After these unrealized, unsold, phantom gains are subject to the new 50 percent double death tax, there is still the matter of the old death tax to deal with.
    Ryan Ellis, National Review, 17 July 2021
  • Essentially, this means any tax bills on unrealized gains in the account are wiped clean.
    Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 17 July 2022
  • Of course, the vast majority of decedents will have unrealized gains of far less than $1 million.
    Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • Biden would require estates to pay taxes on the unrealized gains on these assets.
    Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Crazy Horse's flowing hair, bare chest, and trusty steed remain unrealized.
    Betsy Andrews, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2023
  • Winning on Sunday freed him from the burden of his unrealized potential and slayed the ghost of Belichick that haunted him.
    Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Create a new tax on unrealized capital gains for people with a net worth of $100 million or more.
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The 68-year-old investor believes the economy could quickly tip into a recession as well if the specific plan to tax unrealized gains were to be implemented.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2024

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