How to Use unaffiliated in a Sentence

unaffiliated

adjective
  • What is clear is that Trump lost a good amount of ground among the religious unaffiliated.
    Ryan Burge, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Most of the rest of the county’s voters are unaffiliated.
    Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
  • At the same time, the number of unaffiliated voters has swelled to 3.8 million.
    Fox News, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The video was a wake-up call for Molly Hanten, a co-founder of Alchemy 365, a small chain of fitness studios unaffiliated with the gym where the confrontation took place.
    Kavita Kumar, Star Tribune, 20 Sep. 2020
  • As a contest not just of teams but of nations, the World Cup gives the unaffiliated plenty to mull over in forging their 90-minute allegiances.
    Kanishk Tharoor, The Atlantic, 14 July 2018
  • Half of the state’s new voters in the past four years live in its four biggest counties, and most of them are registering as unaffiliated.
    Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
  • It had been filed during the walkout by a group unaffiliated with the #RedForEd movement.
    Ricardo Cano, azcentral, 24 June 2018
  • He is listed as an unaffiliated voter in his home state of Ohio.
    CBS News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The case had been brought by a group of Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters, who prevailed in a 4–3 ruling in the state’s Supreme Court.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • An unaffiliated Red Hen in New Jersey is also caught up in the tumult.
    Alex Connor, USA TODAY, 25 June 2018
  • But the impact of the new policies are unclear because most firearms sales come from thousands of unaffiliated gun shops or gun shows, not big retail chains.
    CBS News, 4 Sep. 2019
  • In the middle, go for the fajitas, which one (unaffiliated) restaurateur says are the best in Dallas.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 15 July 2021
  • What about those figures that Peter cites, those unaffiliated voters who are up for grabs right now?
    NBC News, 22 Sep. 2024
  • In Kansas, a large share of unaffiliated voters turned out to vote in the August 2022 primary.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Curio holds the trademark on the name, and the two AI products are totally unaffiliated, Curio says.
    Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Black Americans born since 1980 are far more likely to be among the unaffiliated.
    David Crary, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021
  • That figure is about 3% of the unaffiliated registered voters in the state.
    Mark Murray, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • No one unaffiliated with either of the two parties has ever won statewide office there.
    Robert Draper, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • But as lawmakers consider where to draw the lines, there’s no way to know which type of leaner an unaffiliated Oregon voter might be.
    oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2021
  • According to the victim, who is unaffiliated with Emory, the stabbing did not occur on Emory’s campus.
    Chelsea Prince, ajc, 25 June 2018
  • The deadline for unaffiliated voters to register as Democrats to vote in the primary in person is Monday at noon.
    Steven Goode, courant.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • But what does a healthy eating expert unaffiliated with GOLO think of this diet plan?
    Emily Laurence, Good Housekeeping, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The committee will be made up of six members: two from each major party and two unaffiliated people.
    Peter Marteka, courant.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The bill would replace the five unaffiliated members, who all lived out of state, with members who are appointed by the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker of the House.
    James Barragán, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Although the property is owned by United Methodists, Mount Eagle is open to people and groups of all faiths as well as the religiously unaffiliated.
    Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 29 July 2023
  • But when it was crafted, the assumption was that unaffiliated voters — 29% of all voters statewide — would be able to sign petitions for any party.
    Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The Durbin amendment, part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, enables merchants to choose from at least two unaffiliated debit-card networks when routing transactions.
    Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
  • According to the Secretary of State’s office, there are more than 1 million unaffiliated voters in the state.
    Hartford Courant, 5 July 2022
  • Another 24% are unaffiliated or align with a third party.
    Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
  • During most recent elections in the state, the Democratic Party allowed Democratic voters — as well as independents and unaffiliated voters.
    Ashley Lopez, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024

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