How to Use unresolved in a Sentence

unresolved

adjective
  • But, in the courtrooms of D.C., the case remains, to this day, unresolved.
    Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The diplomats left the question of what to do about it unresolved.
    Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
  • Thao, 37, was the last of the four officers with unresolved criminal charges in the killing of Floyd.
    Amanda Holpuch, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
  • So if the inquiries remain unresolved by the end of the term, which is likely, they’ll be dropped.
    Zach Everson, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The result is a stalemate that, if left unresolved, will lead to the collapse of the ACP by early May.
    Brian Fung, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Among the many questions that remain unresolved about the fund is who should pay into it.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2023
  • And in doing so, the justices leave the issue of ADA ‘tester’ standing unresolved.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Twelve of the tribes also still have unresolved water rights claims.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
  • On Thursday, the Supreme Court left those questions unresolved, at least for now.
    Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2024
  • And after a couple of days in Texas, many of those issues are still unresolved.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 June 2022
  • But the final episode leaves this love story very much unresolved.
    Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 12 May 2023
  • But a few, unresolved items hang out there for the club before the upcoming hiatus.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 6 June 2023
  • At the time, all investigative leads from the case were exhausted, and the case sat unresolved.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 27 Dec. 2023
  • So the testimony about the device — about how those AirPods would have synced and been named at the time — was left unresolved.
    Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The question of what comes next for the 190 acres along the Anacostia River remains unresolved.
    Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Still, as the myriad of lawsuits and claims go on unresolved, time is on Silbert’s side.
    Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The May 2 finale ended on a cliffhanger that will, alas, go unresolved.
    Andrea Towers, EW.com, 12 May 2022
  • Alex may have been exposed as a thief, but the double homicide and the other deaths remained unresolved.
    James Lasdun, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Also still unresolved are the shooting deaths of Murdaugh’s wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, more than a year ago.
    Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 17 June 2022
  • More so than some of its competitors, for months OAN clung to the notion that the election remained unresolved.
    New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • Some dream of the unresolved tasks of daily life, like paying bills or raising children.
    Phoebe Zerwick, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Throughout Smile, the entity acts as a metaphor for unresolved trauma, which gets passed from one person to the next.
    Janey Tracey, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The question of whether time is reversible remains one of the biggest unresolved questions in science.
    Adi Foord, University Of Maryland, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2023
  • With his son’s case still unresolved, Hill shows up every week, sometimes multiple days in the same week, to pass out fliers about his son’s death.
    Nick Valencia, CNN, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Things are unresolved, open; tools, cups, bottles, tape, brushes, and other things are there.
    Kyle Dunn’s Night Fever, Vulture, 11 May 2023
  • Feeling a sense of relief — as well as other unresolved emotions — can then lead some caregivers to feel a sense of guilt.
    Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2024
  • What unresolved concerns were trying to surface in my cretin mind?
    WIRED, 29 June 2023
  • People reading my book maintained that the mystery simply couldn’t go unresolved, that there must be a why to the strange thing that had occurred.
    Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 15 June 2022
  • The removal attempt could also impact the timing of Trump's Nov. 26 sentencing if the motion remains unresolved by then.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The tension builds as Pluto goes direct, highlighting unresolved issues in your fourth house of home and family.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024

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