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Recent Examples of unfulfilled
In addition to feeling unfulfilled, Alexander is getting headaches.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
The promise seemingly went unfulfilled.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 4 Dec. 2025
This Kansas team will enter the offseason with a sense of unfulfilled expectations.
—Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 28 Nov. 2025
Yet, a decade later, those commitments remain largely unfulfilled.
—Brian Mukhaya, Time, 24 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfulfilled
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The Eagles’ inconsistency is all about their offense, which retains the talent that won the Super Bowl last year, but has frustrated fans for most of the season.—
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One late-night scene between Agnes and Will is hard to watch, dramatizing the profound distance between her earthbound herbalist mother and his drunk and frustrated writer.—
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Arsenal go into the break disappointed, but not disheartened.—
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However, all three playoff games in the series were won by the road team, including Friday night’s decisive match before a sorely disappointed crowd of 34,473 that filled the lower bowl at Bank of America Stadium.—
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In movies like Sátántangó, Werckmeister Harmonies, and his extraordinary swan song, 2011’s The Turin Horse, the Hungarian filmmaker crafted dreamlike narratives populated with disillusioned, spiritually bereft characters facing harsh realities.—
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All the energy and idealism in that disillusioned age were on the right, as those bright young men in their supply-side neckties came flooding into Washington promising national renewal.—
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Though Pierre focused much of his address on domestic issues, including the country’s disenchanted youths and gang membership, regional politics and the shift away from long-standing political personalities loomed large during the ceremony.—
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With the pressure state associations are under — often from lawyers and legislators called upon by disenchanted families — Niehoff said the trend nationally is to enact a one-time free transfer.—
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Anyone dissatisfied with the board's ruling could appeal through circuit court.—
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Fans who appear to be dissatisfied with the series finale, or just not ready to say goodbye, have taken to social media to react to the false theory.—
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As much as personality appears to rule the day — Trump is a New York billionaire developer whose bombastic style captured the souls of discontented rural Americans — the 2028 presidential race might come down to simple, timeworn economic forces.—
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Swinney has heard the noise of discontented fans this season and defended Clemson's success, going back to when Brent Venables was his defensive coordinator.—
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In Virginia, a dissident hinterland landowner named Nathaniel Bacon led a revolt by aggrieved Colonists that torched the English provincial capital at Jamestown.—
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At the core of this extremism is the dangerous view that the founders viewed aggrieved citizens who attack the government through armed violence as righteous patriots, rather than the enemies of the state.—
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Protests erupted in Iran last week when disgruntled shopkeepers took to the streets to demonstrate against the country’s plummeting currency.—
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At the end of season one, Dana was experiencing an existential crisis; her decades-long dedication to the ER was buckling under the brutal realities of the modern health care system, compounded by a violent attack by a disgruntled patient.—
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“Unfulfilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfulfilled. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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