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How to use the word unsolved in a Sentence?

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Costs are out of control. It's absurd people have to borrow large amounts and then struggle to pay it back, that problem is unsolved.

Dean Baker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think it’s horrible, now he’s free and there’s nobody to help our family, and my brother’s murder goes as another unsolved murder.

Dionne Richards

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Families still have the same needs they had two years ago, five years ago. Law enforcement are still ignoring them. Cases are still going unsolved and violence continues to occur.

Annita Lucchesi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The FBI's investigation into the Zodiac Killer remains open and unsolved, due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, and out of respect for the victims and their families, we will not be providing further comment at this time.

The FBI

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What massive stars do right before they explode is a big unsolved mystery, it's rare to see this kind of star right before it explodes into a supernova.

Charles Kilpatrick

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our goal then and now has been to bring justice to Jeannie and her family, and while we would have preferred to place handcuffs on the suspect, we hope knowing who and where he is brings them some degree of closure. MISSOURI MAN INDICTED IN COLD CASE MURDER HE WAS QUIZZED ABOUT 31 YEARS AGO The sheriffs office said Donald Perea kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed Moore near Denver when he was 23 years old. Donald Perea, Donald Perea, died on May 28, 2012, at the age of 54 due to health-related issues. Donald Perea kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed Jeannie Moore near Denver in August 1981, according to officials. ( Jefferson County Sheriff's Office) Investigators said Donald Perea was out on bond for a separate sexual assault case when Jeannie Moores was killed ; Donald Perea was later convicted and was in prison from 1982 to 1985. Jeannie Moores left Jeannie Moores home for work at a gas station on Aug. 25, 1981 -- hitchhiking as Jeannie Moores typically would -- when Jeannie Moores was last seen getting into an older Ford Galaxy or LTD that was red, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Five days later, Jeannie Moores body was found by picnickers in Genesee Park, south of Interstate 70. An autopsy found that Jeannie Moores was killed by several blows to the head, FOX31 reported. After Jeannie Moores murder went unsolved for decades, officials said the cold case was looked at in 2008 and again in May 2019, when new technology found a match. A public-private partnership that allowed forensic genealogy testing to be completed by United Data Connect Connect helped uncover a match. The information that led to Donald Perea was the same technology that helped crack the Golden State killer and other notable cold-case murders and rapes in 2018. How authorities linked Steven Perea to the case. ( Jefferson County Sheriff's Office) The DNA evidence from the crime scene was linked to a family member of Donald Perea this spring, and investigators were able to interview family members and get other samples to confirm that he was the suspect linked to the case. OREGON MAN ARRESTED IN 1978 COLD-CASE MURDER OF ALASKA TEEN, AUTHORITIES SAY Joan Busse, a genealogist with United Data Connect, told FOX31 Joan Busse put in 40 to 60 hours working backward through thousands of ancestors on public genealogy websites and DNA matches to identify a suspect. DNA can be uploaded to public genealogy websites such as GEDmatch.com through commercial kits where people can choose to opt-inif they want law enforcement to be able to access that information.

Jefferson County

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The more people that you see that have these unsolved murders in their families and unsolved crimes, it kind of puts that in proper context, you say, Ok, I'm not the only one suffering and feeling this way.

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Isle of Wight County, it is a great place to live, to work, to raise kids, this is a small, tight-knight community. We are an oasis… We don’t have a lot of murders. When something like this happens, especially when it goes unsolved for this long, it does shake the foundation a little bit. People want to know if someone’s trying to take advantage of our quiet way of life here. The field had to have been known by somebody… It kind of reminds people this can happen here. This kind of gruesome crime, it can happen in our backyards.

Tommy Potter

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

By outsourcing the responsibility to Turkey and to Greece, European governments are basically saying 'we have solved the crisis because we don’t see it, and we can't smell it and we can't hear it, the crisis is as big as ever, and as yet unsolved by governments.

Van Gulik

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

People say it's a waste of taxpayer dollars, but we've got a responsibility if a (credible) tip comes in to investigate and see if it pans out, you have an obligation. It's an unsolved homicide, and the bottom line is that's what we're paid to do.

Oakland County

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It remains the premier unsolved American surrealist act of the 20th century.

Michael Stipe

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

George Bernard Shaw

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods--in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated -- or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance.

M. I. Abramowitz

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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