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• s  not famous or acclaimed
  unsung heroes of the war
• s  having value that is not acknowledged

• But while this electronic brain, as headline writers called it, took the spotlight, ENIAC had a lot of unsung rivals, many of them shrouded in wartime secrecy.
• His last major project was a series of portraits of people he described as Italy's unsung stars in such fields as law, education and geology.
• On the 50th anniversary of NASA's founding, a small photo tribute to the unsung, furry pioneers who journeyed into orbit, paving the way for human spaceflight.

• obscure
• unknown
• unappreciated
• unvalued

News & Articles

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• Interview: Morgan Neville on 20 Feet From Stardom
  Director Morgan Neville has been making music docs for nearly 20 years but clearly there was a lot of inspiration that went into making 20 Feet from Stardom , a movie that looks at the unsung heroes of the music business--the back-up singers who often go unnamed or unnoticed compared to the more flamboyant frontman until now.
  June 11, 2013 - Coming Soon
• Danny Green's incredible viral ad
  Game 2 was a breakout game for the unsung Spur. But believe it or not, it may not be the best showcase of Danny's shooting abilities...
  June 11, 2013 - WOAI San Antonio
• Library Matters: Unsung Heroes
  In my opinion there are a lot of unsung heroes in Galesburg who volunteer their time to make our community a better place. Mike Kroll comes to mind. No one may have thought he was a hero at the time, but when we lost Mike we knew we lost a hero. People wondered aloud, who would take Mike’s place as vanguard of the public.
  June 10, 2013 - The Galesburg Register-Mail

Quotes

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• Ricky Ponting in Reuters India
  Australian captain Ricky Ponting said: "This decision is obviously something Damien has thought long and hard about and I know that I and all of the other members of the team will miss him greatly. Damien is one of the world's most unsung players in...
• Bill Keller in Guardian Unlimited
  Hassan, who worked for the paper in Baghdad for four years, "was part of a large, sometimes unsung community of Iraqi news-gatherers, translators, and support staff, who take enormous risks every day to help us comprehend their country's struggle...
• Sir Alex Ferguson in BBC Sport
  Ferguson added: "Because of the injuries to Gary Neville and Wes Brown, he has become a permanent fixture. He is ahead of everyone now. To my mind John is one of the unsung heroes like we had when Denis Irwin was here."