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unknown

If something is unknown, nobody knows it. Nothing was written down, and it was a long time ago, so his true date of birth is unknown.

unknown

not known an unknown amount an unknown island an unknown writer an unknown source an unknown and unexplored region they came like angels out the unknown (= nameless, unnamed) being or having an unknown or unnamed source a poem by an unknown author corporations responsible to nameless owners an unnamed donor not known to exist things obscurely felt surged up from unknown depths (= obscure, unsung) not famous or acclaimed an obscure family unsung heroes of the war a variable whose values are solutions of an equation (= strange) not known before used many strange words saw many strange faces in the crowd don't let anyone unknown into the house (= stranger) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

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Simple sentences

Sophie had been looking forward to getting another letter from the unknown sender.
The cowboys rode into an unknown town.
Tom was attacked by an unknown man in the subway.
Mary tried to poison Tom with an unknown substance.
A known mistake is better than an unknown truth.
The known must be separated from the unknown.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
At present, the cause of the disease is unknown.
The meaning is unknown to me.
The cause of the accident is unknown.
The reason she killed herself is unknown.
The whereabouts of the suspect is still unknown.
The cause of the fire was unknown.
The source of the fire is unknown.
Smallpox was unknown to Native Americans.
Many great thinkers who were unknown while alive became famous after death.
Jostaberries are a hybrid cross of blackcurrant with gooseberry, and they're at least as tasty as they're unknown.
Although most islands in the ocean have been mapped, the ocean floor is generally unknown.
His parentage was unknown to us.
Her name was unknown.

Movie subtitles

Parading an unknown dead woman on the front page is offensive.
In contrast, it is not unknown to me, so I will accompany you and provide direction.
To her great relief, the grand duchess saw that the dead man was unknown to her.
She stated that she felt as if she were fighting against an unknown force stronger than her own.
The doctor described Ellen's anxiety to me as some sort of unknown illness.
In the great Gold Rush, Alaska was the hope and dream of men, the ruthless siren of the Far North, beckoning thousands to her icy bosom. Beckoning thousands to her unknown regions.
Destination Europa Deserta, an unknown land.
The doors of Paris open onto the unknown at any speed, far and wide, across France.
I was drawn to the mysteries of science, to the unknown.
But now, the unknown wears your face. looks back at me with your eyes.
Before that, it was unknown to the rest of the world and even in Spain.
The plough is almost unknown.
So it came from over there, the unknown horror, the thing that caused his mind to snap.
It appears that an unknown man by scientifiic means has made himself invisible.
It was expected that he would get a big telescope, but for unknown reasons this did not happen.
The senseless reasoning on those orders, the intel of unknown origin, plus the strange way The Blessed had all the data that we had.
A superhuman race of unknown origin that we encountered during our mission to suppress the Zero-Zero cyborgs.
Unknown at this time, sir, but it's circling around at high speed.
Cowardice is unknown to you. Fear is not in you.
But his whereabouts are unknown.
A 1923 feature picture directed by Roland West called The Unknown Purple has an inventor, played by Henry B Walthall, discovering a purple light that renders the user invisible.
It appears that an unknown man by scientific means has made himself invisible.
You're under arrest on the charge of willful murder. of a woman unknown in Portland Mansions, London on Tuesday last.
But it is not an unknown thing, a quality foreign to many of you.
No hot, burning sun. No eternal treachery, waiting for the unknown.
Both report the whereabouts of Bill Chandler unknown.
I and my school, which takes pride in being the clinic of the renowned Lilienthal, my late father-in-law, we believe that Morbus Chengi is a contagious disease transmitted by an unknown bacillus.
Mate is talking nonsense, claims an unknown passenger is below deck.
The first road to las Hurdes was built only in 1922. Before that, it was unknown to the rest of the world and even in Spain.
If he was unknown, they wouldn't have pinched him.
A symbol of the unknown, and because of that word, you would keep her from me.
An unknown cousin of Mama. Mr. Morlot, a notary. learned of the series of family deaths. and came to take me to Cavaillon.
It looks like a sugar-cane masterpiece. like a station selling tickets to unknown destinations only.

News and current affairs

Unfortunately, like so many other international agreements, the Convention on Biological Diversity remains essentially unknown, un-championed, and unfulfilled.
An unknown attacker may also be deterred by cyber-security measures.
This is not to say that the economic concept of politics is utterly strange to the Chinese - or, for that matter, that the religious notion of politics is unknown in the democratic West.
How long this state of affairs will last is unknown.
But a country does not fail of its own volition, nor is it weakened by unknown causes.
In Germany today, conservatism was forged in the wake of the Weimar Republic's failures, experiences unknown to Anglo-Saxon conservatives.
Today, however, the real threats to the majority of the world's population stems from dangers almost unknown back then: poverty, hunger, population growth, migration, the environment, and the like.
So the only rational response is to research aggressively into the many unknown factors: the physics of cloud formation, the dynamic coupling of the upper stratosphere to the lower atmosphere, the accumulation of atmospheric water vapor.
At what many perceived to be a rigged auction, the company's best assets were sold off to a previously unknown bidder and are now back in the hands of the Russian state.
Dr. Khan's export of centrifuge technology was unknown to successive governments in Pakistan, says the country's leader, General Pervez Musharraf.
Block thought persists in part because its critics on each side are unknown to those on the other side.
Moreover, the size of the bad debt threatening banks remains unknown, and could amount to several hundred billion dollars.
Dozens of leaders of opposition groups--most unknown to the outside world--were imprisoned in recent years.
The exact number of democratic dissidents who have been incarcerated, or worse, is unknown.
Whether America now really is in a liquidity trap is uncertain. How long this state of affairs will last is unknown.
Political Islam is an almost unknown phenomenon in this region (the Islamic Party of Kenya was never registered, for example), and Muslim organizations have mostly focused on welfare and rights.
Now, like Jelinek, whose work was largely unknown to non-German readers until she won the Nobel, Alexievich is finally being recognized for her profound impact.
Then, for some unknown reason, it could make its assistance to Africa conditional on fraternal ties with the worst African dictators.
The impulse simply to cut the Gordian knot of debt by defaulting on it is much stronger when creditors are remote and unknown.
One does not know what one will find when working at the cutting edge and attempting to push into unknown territory.
Corporate sin is not unknown in the US.
Chen was released from detention but remains under house arrest and was dragged back to the police station on September 2 for unknown reasons.

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