unclaimed
English
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- Not claimed.
- Any unclaimed items of luggage may be destroyed.
- 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian[1]:
- On his first day, Safdar went with another driver to collect one of the unclaimed bodies frequently found on the streets of Karachi.
- 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
- The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
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