How to Use unmet in a Sentence

unmet

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• But, in medicine, that’s an unmet need, says Christoph Nabzdyk, a surgeon on the Mayo team.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 24 Aug. 2021
• Their son’s autism brought home the unmet needs of those with the disorder.
  — Lynn Elber, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2021
• Months and years have been wasted while the needs of many remain unmet.
  — Thomas Snitch, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
• Three-quarters of the homes with unmet needs are in the Houston-Galveston area.
  — Mike Snyder, Houston Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2018
• Anchorage is forced to deal with the unmet statewide needs.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2020
• Rare disease is arguably the largest disease area of unmet need around the world.
  — Craig Martin, STAT, 23 July 2022
• Meet Tyler Buchanan, the man who knows too much about the unmet needs of his community.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• Winnicott argued that our ego is shaped in a web of met and unmet needs.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2021
• And yet even in the state with the most expansive programs, there is still unmet demand.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
• Yes, the nation has more than $3.5 trillion in unmet needs and problems swept under the rug for too long.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2021
• And 56 percent of them said that waste management had the greatest unmet need.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2021
• Zhang, who was not involved in the study, says that the work is worthwhile and that such technology might serve an unmet need.
  — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2021
• But there’s also likely to be some unmet promises in those claims.
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2022
• The state faces $9 billion in unfunded highway projects over the next decade, on top of unmet needs at the local level.
  — Brian Eason, The Denver Post, 21 May 2017
• The hallway is a space uneasy with expectation and tense with the force of unmet desire.
  — Longreads, 20 July 2019
• Often, Blue says, the cause of a jealousy attack is a specific fear or unmet need.
  — Bahar Gholipour, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
• Nurx founder Hans Gangeskar said statistics show that his app is filling an unmet need there.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2017
• Over the years, some of these city-specific demands have evolved, some have been successful, and many have gone unmet.
  — NBC News, 29 Dec. 2020
• These pumps could supply a third of the unmet water needs of small farmers, who produce most of the food across sub-Saharan Africa.
  — Fred Pearce, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024
• In 2020, over half of small businesses had unmet funding needs.
  — Randy Garrett, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2022
• In the United States, human mothers and their children live with the burden of unmet needs in a society that is not in any rush to help them.
  — Meaghan O’Connell, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• Every good business solves a problem or fills an unmet need.
  — Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• Another 25% of adults in that same age group reported having an unmet health care needs because of cost in the past year.
  — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 26 July 2024
• Any treatment for Alzheimer’s, one of the biggest unmet medical needs, could be worth tens of billions of dollars.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• In these types of exceptional situations, this should be the norm, not — as is now the case — a goal that often goes unmet.
  — Satsuki Ina, Time, 11 Mar. 2021
• Such tales of unmet expectations are why the Warriors might not have been pleased when the Timberwolves rode a late-season surge to the league’s sixth-worst record.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 2021
• Halibut fishing at all depths has been opened to seven days a week, as is nearshore fishing, with quotas still unmet.
  — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2022
• People of color are nearly twice as likely to have an unmet need for leave than white workers.
  — Clio Chang, New Republic, 9 Aug. 2017
• The company folded within a year, leaving behind a trail of unmet promises to nearly 50 dancers from around the world.
  — Brooke Stangeland, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2024
• During the pandemic, interrupted supply chains caused prices to rise sharply due to unmet demand.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Dec 2024