unaccounted

adjective

un·​ac·​count·​ed ˌən-ə-ˈkau̇n-təd How to pronounce unaccounted (audio)
: not accounted : unexplained
—often used with for

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In Fujian, local authorities said Friday that multiple residents were left unaccounted for after days of heavy rain, Xinhua reported. — ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026 Other detainees remain unaccounted for The ICRC said in a statement that the remaining prisoners had been transferred to it on Friday. — Fadi Tawil, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026 But the day after her last conversations with her family, catastrophic floods struck Nepal’s valleys along the Chinese border killing more than 1,000 people and leaving another roughly 3,900 unaccounted for, according to the Associated Press. — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026 That effort led to the first full map of every neuron and synapse in an animal brain—139,000 neurons, 50 million connections, none of them left unaccounted for. — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unaccounted

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First Known Use

1689, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of unaccounted was in 1689

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unaccounted

adjective
un·​ac·​count·​ed ˌən-ə-ˈkau̇nt-əd How to pronounce unaccounted (audio)
: not accounted : unexplained
—often used with for
their absence was unaccounted for
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