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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• The presence of Castellanos could allow the team to trade an outfielder like Myers to bolster unmet needs on the roster.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• In other words, there’s billions of dollars’ worth of football demand that goes unmet each year.
  — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• With basic needs already unmet, many will not be able to afford to celebrate this year.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
• In the four years since the Lung Cancer Initiative was formed, Avi’s team has been working to address the two biggest unmet needs along the patient journey.
  — Scientific American Custom Media, Scientific American, 27 July 2022
• So yes, this pattern of anger, disrespect, unmet needs, and ending your walks alone is your normal.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2020
• Seniors enrolled in Medicaid are more likely to have unmet LTC needs than those who are not.
  — Chris Pope, National Review, 2 Sep. 2021
• Being proactive can be supportive for kids, and parents can do this by looking out for unmet needs.
  — Amy Morin, Parents, 24 July 2024
• The three-week trial in downtown federal court reprised litigation going back to 2011 that challenged the leases and asserted an unmet need for veteran housing.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024