How to Use unfounded in a Sentence

unfounded

adjective
  • The sponsors of the bill said those claims are unfounded.
    — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The district told The Times that these claims are unfounded.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Fears of a content drought due to the strikes that shut down the film industry were unfounded.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
  • In other words the idea that this is a washout weekend is unfounded.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • Reports that a train station in the city was among the targets were unfounded.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The video echoes the unfounded claims promoted by QAnon.
    — Kyung Lah and Kimberly Berryman, CNN, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Kennedy spoke at length about the unfounded claims that vaccines and gluten could cause or worsen autism.
    — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 24 June 2024
  • The fans' worries have proved to be unfounded and there is no suggestion this will happen to The Acolyte.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The justices agreed that the removal of juror No. 5 was unfounded and had prejudiced the outcome of the case.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • So whether that fear is founded or unfounded, the fear is real.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The researchers say that in truth, the idea that money can be enough to make someone happy is unfounded.
    — Trey Williams, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Then, the department learned that there had been a false positive on the test and deemed the case unfounded, according to the records.
    — Hannah Rappleye, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Talk of a place in the first 12-team College Football Playoff isn’t unfounded.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024
  • Since then, however, fears that the war would cut off all exports through the Black Sea have proved unfounded.
    — David J. Lynch, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Hobbs also said that many of the rumors of ICE raids are likely unfounded.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Will Leighton find the strength to overcome her unfounded fears, no doubt ingrained in her by her parents?
    — Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Lindell has pushed unfounded claims of voter fraud since Trump lost to Biden.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Markakis instead joined the Atlanta Braves and proved those concerns to be unfounded.
    — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Yet unfounded claims that the 2020 election was marred by fraud have continued to spread.
    — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
  • The case was thrown out after a court determined the woman's claims were unfounded.
    — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2021
  • And perhaps Heather should have apologized to Lisa for a nasty attack that turned out to be unfounded.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Hobbs, as the state's election chief, stood up to unfounded claims that Trump had lost the 2020 presidential vote due to widespread fraud.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 15 Nov. 2022
  • His claims of election fraud, unfounded and disproved, were dismissed in courts across the country.
    — Azi Paybarah, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2021
  • But The Chronicle found many false or unfounded posts that were not removed.
    — Kaylee Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Rankin said the report of a firearm being involved in the incident was unfounded.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Though her concerns are completely unfounded, give his mother the time and space to come around.
    — Annie Lane, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The sense you were diminished in the eyes of others was and is likely unfounded (though your friend almost surely was).
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
  • Taylor Greene hasn’t been the only one who’s been pushing such unfounded claims.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • Other fans expressed concerns about visiting on grounds of safety which couldn’t be much more unfounded.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • For Parker, the accusation that Moretti used too much force was also unfounded.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 12 May 2025

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