How to Use unmet in a Sentence

unmet

adjective
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Left unmet, their demands could evolve into pressure for regime change.
    William A. Galston, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The lawsuit, filed last November by 14 veterans and since made a class action, reprised an earlier lawsuit that challenged the leases and asserted an unmet need for permanent housing.
    Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2024

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