unfilled

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Recent Examples of unfilled Mecklenburg County District Attorney's Office has 85 prosecutors — a low number compared to counties its size — including seven unfilled positions. Alexandria Sands, Axios, 17 Jan. 2025 Though Service Employees International Union Local 1000, the state’s largest public union, noted the remaining unfilled positions at the state leave a significant gap in staffing levels for essential services. William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 11 Jan. 2025 Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 7.70 million unfilled positions. Lucia Mutikani, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025 There are jobs unfilled, and every working migrant contributes energy, skills, and taxes to the economy. George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unfilled
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfilled
Adjective
  • No information about specific discounts is available online, but when contacted by USA TODAY last week, some Joann stores said that base discounts ranged between 10-20%, with some Christmas items being discounted as high as 75%.
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Make reservations well before your stay to ensure the set will be available.
    Robin Raven, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Arriving officers located evidence of gunfire at the scene with damage to an unoccupied vehicle, Vafiades said.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Police said the store and two unoccupied vehicles were also hit by bullets, but no one else was injured.
    Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The apartment is being sold unfurnished, though both platform beds, which were custom-built for the space, are included in the sale.
    Michael Kaminer, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The temperature has dipped to 40 degrees at times, and many people have been sleeping in warm clothes and bundling up, their homes becoming the equivalent of unfurnished cabins.
    Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • These cat qubits are miniscule hollow structures of tantalum containing microwave radiation.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Beharie’s ability to subtly emote with facial expressions and body language add complexity to an otherwise hollow Casey who at times can be frustrating to pin down and understand.
    Morgan A. Grain, Essence, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Unlike a workstation or a server that IT teams actively track, things like printers, industrial control systems and even smart thermostats often sit unattended.
    Austin Gadient, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Nor is stealth aided by growing evidence of his own neglectful self-care: exhaustion, panic attacks, blackouts, a limp from unattended jogging injuries, eventually audio and visual hallucinations.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Evidently the ghost town of Albemarle was not quite uninhabited.
    Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
  • And the current uncertainty over its future orbit extends to its possible impact locations, which include a mix of uninhabited, sparsely populated and densely populated areas: the eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, parts of Africa, the Arabian Sea and South Asia.
    Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025

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“Unfilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfilled. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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