How to Use unattributed in a Sentence

unattributed

adjective
  • The origin of that story turned out to be an unattributed Chinese blog post.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2020
  • The claims are often unattributed and are rarely tied in a substantive way to mainstream science.
    — Gary Robbins, latimes.com, 9 July 2018
  • The dice chairs are unattributed and the artwork above the windows is by Celeste Fichter.
    — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 16 May 2026
  • Leva found them on eBay, unattributed, for a couple hundred dollars each.
    — Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor, 21 Sep. 2012
  • The caption had appeared as an unattributed quote beneath the student's photo.
    — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 18 June 2018
  • The eerie and still-unattributed radio transmission came from a numbers station.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The nuclear thriller opens as an unattributed missile is launched at the United States.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • As with so many virtuoso musicians a level below stardom, much of his work was unattributed.
    — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2018
  • This was, however, not the first time McRaven's remarks have been unattributed or copied for use by others.
    — Travis Caldwell and Amanda Jackson, CNN, 14 May 2021
  • Now that the sourcing looks suspect, the magazine publishes an unattributed statement and seeks to move on.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The film has been described as a nuclear thriller and opens as an unattributed missile is launched at the United States.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • According to a network source, the unattributed passages were caught during routine editing.
    — Washington Post, 3 May 2022
  • The quotes were unattributed, but at least two recognizably belonged to current members of the country’s ruling party.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • But the article is an unattributed copy of The Dunning-Kruger Times' satirical post.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Gray propaganda is the communication from an unattributed or hidden source.
    — Jeff Bradford, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Fox does not disclose tournament ad revenue, and spot pricing circulates only as unattributed estimates.
    — Maureen Kerr, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • His knowledge of Adidas' role in the recruitment of Brian Bowen is alleged in a new book, but mostly through unattributed hearsay.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The notebooks were filled with evasions, contradictions, abstractions, abrupt tense shifts, and unattributed dialogue.
    — Alice Gregory, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
  • In the unattributed* photo above, two men pose for an opportunity to show off some awesome physics to the photographer (who hopefully wasn’t also the pilot).
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
  • That came after unnamed players offered The Athletic their unattributed takes on the second-year Cincinnati coach.
    — Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Several graduations in the last decade have witnessed speakers using material that was unattributed or outright copied.
    — Travis Caldwell and Amanda Jackson, CNN, 14 May 2021
  • When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
    — Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Clemente is a graphic designer and wanted to use an unattributed image of Swami Satchidananda on the Woodstock stage for a poster.
    — Michael Hill, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The sixty-five-year-old president himself tested negative, according to unattributed reports.
    — Vanessa Barbara, The New York Review of Books, 10 June 2020
  • Beard frequently printed unattributed recipes purloined from associates and plagiarized from other cookbooks.
    — Rien Fertel, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Telegram has published the unattributed screenshot, with its inference, rather than restating the allegation itself.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 16 May 2021
  • Data protection officers cannot govern what hasn't been tracked, while legal cannot assess exposure on unattributed interactions.
    — Jeppe Rindom, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • In the past decade, at least two nonmilitary US satellite systems have experienced brief, unattributed glitches tied to hacking attacks.
    — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 26 June 2018
  • Her film tells the story of what happens when a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, forcing a race to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In the past months, literary investigators have exposed the two leading contenders for the September election for using unattributed text by other authors in their books.
    — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2021

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