How to Use unaccredited in a Sentence

unaccredited

adjective
  • As a start-up high school, it is unaccredited.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • There are also some student needs that unaccredited programs aren’t equipped to meet.
    — Lindsay Gellman, The Atlantic, 30 June 2018
  • Also, degrees from an unaccredited school may not be recognized by other schools.
    — Eric Stirgus, ajc, 25 June 2019
  • First, they were lured into a dubious curriculum of an unaccredited for-profit college.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2023
  • Rare exceptions include private loans that exceeded the cost of attendance or that were taken out for unaccredited schools.
    — John Csiszar, CNBC, 2 June 2026
  • And students from unaccredited schools can’t transfer credits to other campuses.
    — Nanette Asimov, SFChronicle.com, 19 July 2019
  • In one case in Cancún, nearly two weeks ago, an unaccredited lab was found to have given faulty coronavirus tests to 44 Argentine tourists.
    — Steve Fisher, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Brink leads a team that rescues exotic animals from private owners, unaccredited sanctuaries and roadside zoos across the country.
    — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Like most coding schools, Lambda’s curriculum is unaccredited, and self-reports its performance metrics.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Even some advocates for home schools worry about the rise of what are, functionally, unaccredited and unregulated private schools - subject to far fewer rules - no matter what they may be called.
    — Laura Meckler, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Enclosures at unaccredited facilities may not be able to withstand a tiger’s strength, says Bill Zeigler, in an email to Discover.
    — Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2020
  • But transferring his credits to another school became a nightmare because few were willing to accept classes from an unaccredited institution.
    — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, The Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The company’s onboarding process sifts between accredited and unaccredited users, so not every offering would be available to every user.
    — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2022
  • While rapamycin has yet to be properly tested on humans for anti-aging, people have been prescribed the treatment for this purpose — with seemingly positive, if unaccredited, results.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 10 July 2024
  • And after the superintendent of the county school system took a job in Tennessee, questions emerged about his doctoral degree from an unaccredited school in Pakistan.
    — Ashley Remkus | [email protected], al, 26 Feb. 2021
  • An unaccredited analyst, Joseph Lombardi, was detained by local police after being tracked down as operating the drone.
    — Chantel Jennings, The Athletic, 31 July 2024
  • Representatives for some unaccredited companies say most private operators are honorable and that the whole group is being targeted because of the activities of a few bad actors.
    — Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The unaccredited school is structured like a typical college experience and offers 10 majors, including business, theater, music, dance and health and wellness.
    — Meg Dunn, CNN, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Their focus was less on the financial literacy content and more on PragerU — the unaccredited, conservative advocacy group that would be providing it.
    — Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The college sits within a cluster of other unaccredited schools—many of them religious institutions—whose degrees hold no weight in the civil service and often go unrecognized in higher education and most workplaces.
    — Olivia Empson, Vanity Fair, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Recently, unaccredited zoos in America and aboard have been harshly criticized by animal welfare organizations for using the tool to manage elephants.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Early in his career, Hayden also failed the California State Bar exam eight times after graduating from an online, unaccredited law school in four years and four months.
    — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Sisk’s doctorate in numismatics – the study of coins and currency – is from Ashwood University, an unaccredited online school based in Pakistan.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The latter, whose daughter attended the unaccredited institution, accused Ye of comparing himself to Adolf Hitler and threatening to lock students in cages.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The solution was to issue Regulation A securities, which allowed the company to seek unaccredited investors.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2019
  • The vast majority of clinics currently advertising stem cell treatments are not approved by the FDA, are unaccredited, and are not reimbursed by insurance.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2021
  • According to the Humane Society of the United States, captive big cat attacks are more likely to happen at unaccredited facilities.
    — Megan Schmidt, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Revenue Commissioner Curtis Stewart said unaccredited schools were notified in writing of the impending deadline.
    — Trisha Powell Crain, AL.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Farther down the road was the enclosure for unaccredited journalists, who were broadcasting live in a variety of Eastern European languages, and searching for nonjournalists to interview.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Days after Rolling Stone’s report on West’s controversial, unaccredited, and unorthodox Donda school, the rapper briefly touched on the private institution’s goals.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2022

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