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Recent Examples of unaffiliated
Democrat Mike Croley, a Navy veteran, has also filed to run in the election, and so has unaffiliated candidate Christopher Monday, who ran for the same seat as an independent in 2020.
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Austin Hornbostel, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
For example, today, 16 states – featuring 117 congressional districts – do not allow independent or unaffiliated voters to participate in party primaries.
—Andrew Tisch, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Conservative congregations are required to give hiring priority to rabbis with denominational affiliation, but a persistent shortage of pulpit rabbis has eroded that advantage, enabling unaffiliated rabbis to find jobs with relative ease.
—Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
During its half-centennial run, there was even a movie — about but unaffiliated to the series — about the making of its first episode.
—Rance Collins, IndieWire, 9 Aug. 2025
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Austin Hornbostel, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
For example, today, 16 states – featuring 117 congressional districts – do not allow independent or unaffiliated voters to participate in party primaries.
—Andrew Tisch, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Conservative congregations are required to give hiring priority to rabbis with denominational affiliation, but a persistent shortage of pulpit rabbis has eroded that advantage, enabling unaffiliated rabbis to find jobs with relative ease.
—Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
During its half-centennial run, there was even a movie — about but unaffiliated to the series — about the making of its first episode.
—Rance Collins, IndieWire, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaffiliated
Adjective
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Charter schools are overseen by independent boards, overwhelmingly, like nonprofit boards of directors that manage the oversight and then follow all or most of the same government rules related to public schools.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Employers increasingly wonder whether campuses are cultivating independent thinkers or just cautious followers.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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It is designed to enable operator decisions in real time, providing the human touch while teleoperating robotic systems and tasking them with complex autonomous functions.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Though many are optimistic over the long term if Musk can pull off a transformation of the company to focus more on autonomous driving, artificial intelligence and robotics.—
John Melloy,
CNBC,
15 Sep. 2025
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Gulf states like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE could utilize their vast sovereign wealth funds to impose trade limitations on Israel.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund launched LIV in 2022 as a competitor to the PGA Tour.—
Tim Casey,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Unaffiliated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaffiliated. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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