How to Use unrecognized in a Sentence

unrecognized

adjective
  • But life at the more than two dozen unrecognized villages is harsh.
    Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2023
  • There was a lot of good football that will go unrecognized.
    Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The hope is to shine a light on a broad scope of creatives who might otherwise go unrecognized.
    Ryan Patrick Hooper, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2018
  • But that doesn’t mean your team’s efforts and hard work should go unrecognized.
    L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Is there a good way to end my cycle of unrecognized gift-giving?
    cleveland, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The body sends in B cells to fight the unrecognized RNA, and create antibodies against it.
    Isabella Cueto, STAT, 18 June 2022
  • The new look — which no longer includes a mustache — hasn’t gone unrecognized.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • There was a certain amount of unrecognized grief going on with me.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Bareilles can now sometimes walk unrecognized down a New York City street.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Riddle rolled out a new theme this week that was similar enough to his old theme to bo unrecognized.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • Born in Chicago in 1918, White was a great but largely unrecognized Black artist.
    The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
  • On a plane ride last week, the 25-year-old not only went unrecognized by a flight attendant, but confused for a child.
    Amethyst Tate, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2022
  • Within nine months, the agreement calls for a plan for all the other unrecognized villages.
    Dov Lieber, WSJ, 11 June 2021
  • Plan a costume party, think up some good tricks or hand out a few treats, but don't let this Halloween go unrecognized.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2019
  • That the Son of God, born of a woman, and sentenced to the death of a slave, had perished unrecognized by his judges, was a reflection fit to give pause to even the haughtiest monarch.
    Tom Holland, Time, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Israeli officials have argued that Bedouin in unrecognized villages do not have valid claims to the land, and courts have backed up that view.
    New York Times, 10 June 2021
  • The unrecognized incentive for providers and insurers is to increase prices in order to increase the size of the discount.
    J.b. Silvers, The Conversation, 24 June 2019
  • Zebra and quagga mussels have become a fact of life in many often unrecognized ways for people who live in the Great Lakes.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Joseph Rochefort and his heroics long went unrecognized.
    Fay Vincent, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2023
  • In Rick’s case, this might have meant ensuring that his injury didn’t go unrecognized.
    Andrew V. Papachristos, Scientific American, 9 June 2023
  • Your efforts shouldn't go unrecognized, even if the end results aren't perfect.
    Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2022
  • One of the most widespread and important developments of the last five years has gone largely unrecognized: the rise of telehealth.
    Liz Elting, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Olympic Trials qualifiers are part of a rare group—the One Percenters—a group who too often goes unrecognized in road racing.
    Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Blacks have amassed a long list of achievements and contributions to this country that go unrecognized.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2022
  • Or it could be summed up as moving from an unrecognized Door Dash driver to a celebrity spokesman for Bojangles.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Khasham Zana, set off the main highway between the cities of Beersheba and Dimona, is a typical unrecognized village in the Negev.
    New York Times, 10 June 2021
  • As football teams from the NFL to the high school level prepare — and hope — for a 2020 season, one of the unrecognized concerns by outsiders could be getting those squads fully equipped.
    Barry Wilner, The Denver Post, 23 June 2020
  • But the solemnity of the holiday did not go unrecognized.
    Brian Lisik, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Either way, the reversal of population trends is a paradigm shift of the first order and one that is almost completely unrecognized.
    Zachary Karabell, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence of drug use, then lay for hours on a stretcher in the hallway, unrecognized and unattended.
    Tracy Fessenden, The Conversation, 15 July 2024

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