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as in unnamed
not named or identified by a name
some unidentified person helped them and then left quietly
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Recent Examples of unidentified
Dugan and another unidentified judge then allegedly approached the arrest team in the public hallway, according to the complaint.
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Luke Barr, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2025
The 16-year-old was standing on a southbound F train platform around 8:40 a.m. at the Carroll St. subway station in Carroll Gardens when an unidentified man came up and smashed the youth in the face with a tree branch, sources said.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025
The health department provided the additional details about the location of the unidentified individual and the person’s vaccination status in a health advisory sent to local health departments and health care providers.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2025
The episode continues the momentum with an extended stalker-vision first-person shot, as an unseen person creeps inexorably into an unidentified home at night, eventually revealing the Empire ghoul who tortured our gal Bix Caleen (Adria Arjona) last season.
—Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
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Luke Barr, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2025
The 16-year-old was standing on a southbound F train platform around 8:40 a.m. at the Carroll St. subway station in Carroll Gardens when an unidentified man came up and smashed the youth in the face with a tree branch, sources said.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025
The health department provided the additional details about the location of the unidentified individual and the person’s vaccination status in a health advisory sent to local health departments and health care providers.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2025
The episode continues the momentum with an extended stalker-vision first-person shot, as an unseen person creeps inexorably into an unidentified home at night, eventually revealing the Empire ghoul who tortured our gal Bix Caleen (Adria Arjona) last season.
—Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unidentified
Adjective
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Drinkwater didn't make one appearance in a Chelsea shirt last season, whilst Bakayoko spent the season in Italy on loan at AC Milan.—
SI.com,
SI.com,
3 Aug. 2019
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Decisions made by engineers today, in other words, will determine not how one car drives but how all cars drive.—
Johannes Himmelreich,
BostonGlobe.com,
30 Mar. 2018
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In an office-wide email obtained by ProPublica, Martin quoted an unnamed contact who compared the DOJ’s use of the obstruction statute to President Franklin Roosevelt’s decision to imprison more than 100,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II.—
Andy Kroll,
ProPublica,
28 Apr. 2025
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The unnamed child is responsible for damaging a 1960 Mark Rothko painting reportedly worth €50 (about $56 million) inside the Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam.—
Rachel McRady,
People.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has set up free, anonymous drop-off sites across the country where Americans can leave their unused prescription medications.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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This could be anonymous reporting systems for employees and ensuring that bias is mitigated in workplace systems through tools like calibration and scorecards/rubrics for hiring.—
Janice Gassam Asare,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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“Unidentified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unidentified. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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