"unthing" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1998, U.C. Mandal, J. Rawat, Public Administration: Principles and Practice, page 272:",
          "text": "Whether or not PPB is an unthing in the federal bureaucracy, the budgetary concepts that are represented by it and its conceptual predecessors are still viable within OMB: control, management, and planning.",
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          "ref": "2006, Anne Carolyn Klein, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Unbounded Wholeness:",
          "text": "This hidden heart essence, so secret,\nAn unthing untouched by the eterne […]",
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