How to Use uncorroborated in a Sentence

uncorroborated

adjective
  • At the same time, this is a story with a very incomplete and uncorroborated set of claims.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 11 July 2018
  • Hamas has said the number of hostages is above 100 but that's uncorroborated.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Keep in mind, these allegations are more than a year old and completely uncorroborated.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The report did criticize the FBI for opening the probe based on vague and uncorroborated tips.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • For starters, there are (uncorroborated) rumors of Ortiz being linked to a relationship with the wife of a drug lord and that the shooting was payback.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 19 June 2019
  • At the same time, many of Zatko’s claims are uncorroborated and appear to have little documentary support.
    — Marcy Gordon, ajc, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Cleverdon said to date these allegations have been uncorroborated.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 1 July 2022
  • Comey also speculated about the untrue, unverified, uncorroborated claims that were made in the Clinton bought and paid for a dossier.
    — Fox News, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Grace was citing uncorroborated reports that a male had been detained for questioning south of Tucson, Arizona.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The military has made uncorroborated claims of election fraud and has violently suppressed protests to restore democracy.
    — Jon Emont, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2021
  • The files are not findings of guilt, and some critics have raised concerns about releasing confidential and uncorroborated material concerning those who have not been charged with a crime.
    — Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The anonymous, uncorroborated claims are untrue and terribly unfair.
    — Christine Pelisek, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Yet the left push these unverified and uncorroborated claims throughout the highest levels of our government right into the gullible media, their arm that pushes their propaganda.
    — Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
  • These reports are routine, contain uncorroborated and unvetted information and do not on their own establish any wrongdoing.
    — Farnoush Amiri, ajc, 30 May 2023
  • Abrego Garcia denies the claim, and his attorneys argue that the evidence is speculative and uncorroborated.
    — Amanda Castro hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Kavanaugh denies the allegation and a White House spokeswoman dismisses the claim as uncorroborated.
    — CNN, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Iran has made similar uncorroborated claims about its efforts in counterespionage this year, often in the wake of political clashes with the United States.
    — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 22 July 2019
  • The other was an uncorroborated story from a British man who had once made sweeping allegations of child molestation against members of the British Parliament.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The Herald located a related tip, which seems to make a series of uncorroborated claims — and does not directly connect Lutnick to Epstein.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2026
  • A number of the documents referencing Clinton are uncorroborated tips sent to the FBI.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
  • But her allegations are uncorroborated, and the precedent in the NFL and other pro sports leagues is for athletes to continue playing while civil legal matters play out in the courts.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • While these remain uncorroborated, the increasingly lurid picture caused Shochiku to issue another statement on Monday.
    — Mark Schilling, Variety, 25 May 2023
  • Though the allegations against him remain uncorroborated, and most are incredible and fall apart in embarrassing fashion, like the one most recently in the Times, the assault continues.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Behind the push Much of the recent saga stems from uncorroborated allegations that the president financially benefited from his son’s overseas dealings.
    — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Citing the lack of a response, the opinion issued Monday concurred with Ferguson’s claim that his conviction could not stand because it was based on uncorroborated testimony of his daughter.
    — Tom Olsen / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Matt Zeller roamed the office in flip-flops, frowning into his phone, groaning out expletives, and announcing disquieting scraps of uncorroborated information to anyone within earshot.
    — Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The campaign repeatedly took shots at the media for saying that its allegations were unsubstantiated or uncorroborated, arguing that the campaign has yet to lay out its case fully and won't do so until the legal team is in the courtroom.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Medeiros first sounded the alarm on Lucas’ conduct in an affidavit last year, but prosecutors dismissed her account as uncorroborated and her affidavit wasn’t released to the public, according to the Globe.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 10 July 2023
  • But a 1989 state Supreme Court opinion rejected the recording as uncorroborated hearsay that wouldn’t have exonerated West.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
  • But a 1989 state Supreme Court opinion rejected the recording as uncorroborated hearsay that wouldn't have exonerated West.
    — CBS News, 15 Aug. 2019

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