How to Use unsourced in a Sentence

unsourced

adjective
  • This is unsourced nonsense from people trying to stir up controversy where there is none.
    — Hillary Busis, HWD, 17 Jan. 2017
  • The post, however, is unsourced and does not provide further details.
    — Chelsea Brasted, NOLA.com, 20 May 2018
  • During the speech, Biden made an unsourced claim about the speed that AR-15s shoot bullets.
    — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 31 Aug. 2022
  • All of the reports rely on unnamed and unsourced information.
    — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 30 May 2018
  • Everything in the above paragraph is hyperbole at best, and unsourced innuendo at worst.
    — Michael Beller, SI.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • The gossipy accounts, by contrast, repeat unsourced or unconvincing dirt about abusers and victims.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Two days after that, another blogger repeated the unsourced story.
    — Kyle Hopkins and Michelle Theriault Boots, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The former is unsourced, while Zemin is also rumored to be a private practitioner of Buddhism.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2012
  • The statistical content is - although unsourced - largely right.
    — SI.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • The information, however, is unsourced, and historically the author has been less careful about factchecking.
    — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Halperin adds unsourced details of Fénéon’s conduct in the minutes leading up to and immediately following the attack which have no basis in fact, but which lend her account an air of veracity.
    — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2020
  • Some practitioners, though, have shared inaccurate or unsourced information without prompting.
    — New York Times, 14 July 2021
  • The whole account, reported in several Spanish newspapers, is sketchy, unsourced and uncorroborated.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • An unsourced comment on Walter Winchell’s radio program states that the star of America’s most popular television show was a communist, which cast suspicion on Ball.
    — Weldon B. Johnson, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Online news pages like those of Google and Facebook lazily ran with wild stories of conspiracies and terrorist plots, all unconfirmed and unsourced — while the basic facts about why and how Paddock shot so many were all but ignored.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 17 Oct. 2017
  • These unsourced stories contained details only department personnel would know—despite a strict prohibition on discussing or disclosing investigations.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Instead, DeSantis unleashed a rambling recap of the past seven years, with plenty of unsourced statistics, claims of victory that aren’t supported by reality, and wording often designed to obfuscate the most controversial parts of his tenure.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026

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