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unpublished work

American  

noun

Law.
  1. a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.


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In additional, unpublished work, the team found that the same diet helped regeneration after treatment with 5-fluorouracil, a chemotherapy drug commonly used for colon and pancreatic cancers that can also harm intestinal tissue.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2025

On the one hand, this was very personal, unpublished work from a famously private writer; if Didion wanted the journal published, wouldn’t she have already made that known?

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2025

This did much to preserve her memory, but what about her unpublished work?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2024

Chandler completed no major books after the death of Cissy Pascal Chandler, but he did summon a brief, unpublished work, in a format he was not known for mastering: poetry.

From Washington Times • Dec. 11, 2023

Nobody knows whether the thirty-three-year-old Leibniz encountered Newton’s unpublished work during his trip to England.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife