All too often, crimes of violence are left unsolved.
What happened to the men on the expedition will always be an unsolved mystery.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
But police also said that most unsolved female murders are not the result of domestic violence.
It presented a far better opportunity for an unsolved murder than killing her on his own premises.
Meanwhile, the problems of stagnant wages, low savings and sluggish productivity gains will remain unsolved.
Next, I shall discuss some difficulties which it either generates or leaves unsolved.
One of the most important unsolved questions here is the extent to which changes in ideas and attitudes are really autonomous.
The group said that 15 of the arson fires remain unsolved.
This book collects together what I consider to be some of the major unsolved mysteries of science.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomething that has never been solved►unsolved
· All too often, crimes of violence are left unsolved.· What happened to the men on the expedition will always be an unsolved mystery.
►unexplained
an event or fact that is unexplained has never been explained so no one knows exactly what happened: · For years, Sukhbir's death remained unexplained.· There had been three unexplained fires at the school in the previous six months.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►an unsolved murder
(=for which the killer has never been found)· Police questioned the man about two unsolved murders.
►an unsolved mystery
· What happened to her is still an unsolved mystery.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►crime
· In his past, however, there is an unsolved crime that continues to torment him.· They could also be temporarily stationed in villages at the expense of the inhabitants as punishment for unsolved crimes.· An unsolved crime that's even inspired Inspector Morse writer Colin Dexter.· So, it remains an unsolved crime.
►murder
· It presented a far better opportunity for an unsolved murder than killing her on his own premises.· Rain thought a burglary beneath the notice of men with an unsolved murder on their hands.
►mystery
· They were part of the Cicero Club, a society which met once a month or so to discuss famous unsolved mysteries.· This book collects together what I consider to be some of the major unsolved mysteries of science.· What happened to this piece is still an unsolved mystery.· For the time being, the Phaistos Disc remains an unsolved mystery.· To this day Devon Loch's collapse remains one of the Turfs greatest unsolved mysteries.
►problem
· There remain, at the same time, two unsolved problems which have proved detrimental to the establishment of work schemes.· This remains the most important unsolved problem of complexity theory.· In fact there are many difficult and unsolved problems in this area.· In 1905 Einstein ranked it among the top five unsolved problems in physics, and that status continues to this day.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounsolutionsolventsolubilityinsolvencyadjectivesoluble ≠ insolubleunsolvedsolvent ≠ insolventsolvable ≠ insolvableverbsolveadverbinsolvably
a problem, mystery, or crime that is unsolved has never been solved: The murder still remains unsolved.