unfinished

as in native
not completed They sell unfinished furniture at the flea market.

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Recent Examples of unfinished The stack of condos at One Seaport (a.k.a 161 Maiden Lane) stands forlorn and unfinished for now, since a three-inch tilt and a scrimmage of lawsuits brought construction to a halt. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 May 2025 After pitching the story idea to Shults, Tesfaye sent him song demos, unfinished material and references from older songs that the director would put in the script. Brian Truitt, USA Today, 17 May 2025 An ongoing legal battle between a Kansas town and a burger joint over an unfinished mural is sparking controversy in the community, with lawyers claiming the city violated free speech rights. Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2025 Image Mejia went from an unfinished boy to a refined god with the help of his three muses (Unity Phelan, Dominika Afanasenkov and Ashley Hod). Thea Traff, New York Times, 3 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for unfinished
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Adjective
  • Fortunately for women’s basketball fans in the area, Clark and the Fever will play the Mystics again in Baltimore on Sept. 7. Clark played in Washington in June as part of a weekend Mystics series that brought her Fever and Baltimore native Angel Reese’s Chicago Sky to the area.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 26 May 2025
  • Plants flower over a long season, supporting butterflies and native bees well into autumn.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 May 2025
Adjective
  • That narrative that African players are raw and unpolished?
    Sindiswa Mabunda, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • Decorating a space in the French country style is truly an exercise in balance: Combining old and new, polished and unpolished, antique and modern—these principles dictate the rules of chateaucore decor.
    Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • Such a fund holds derivatives tied to the prices of a basket of physical assets—crude oil, natural gas, precious metals, base metals, grains, livestock.
    William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • Subscribe The core inflation is expected to ease in the coming months due to lower crude oil prices and the yen’s appreciation, said Masato Koike, economist at Sompo Institute Plus.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • Working between Seoul and Amsterdam, her practice occupies a space between the mechanical and the visceral, the kinetic sculptures tend to pulse with raw emotion.
    Nargess Banks, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
  • LuPone felt at home with Mamet’s dialogue; its raw aggression gave language to her own.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 26 May 2025

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“Unfinished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfinished. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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