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
• 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
• But the article is an unattributed copy of The Dunning-Kruger Times' satirical post.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2022
• The caption had appeared as an unattributed quote beneath the student's photo.
  — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 18 June 2018
• Now that the sourcing looks suspect, the magazine publishes an unattributed statement and seeks to move on.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
• 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
• That’s the anonymous part: A list of author names is provided but unattributed, and the reader is invited to guess which author wrote which piece.
  — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
• Leva found them on eBay, unattributed, for a couple hundred dollars each.
  — Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor, 21 Sep. 2012
• 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
• Dozens of her paintings are lost, or are languishing in private homes or galleries, unloved and unattributed; her self-portrait as Saint Catherine only came to light in 2017.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2021
• More are coming, according to other unattributed comments: Lots of undeclared bankruptcies are still in the pipeline in the shale plays.
  — Rachel Adams-Heard, Bloomberg.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• 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
• That came after unnamed players offered The Athletic their unattributed takes on the second-year Cincinnati coach.
  — Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2021
• As with so many virtuoso musicians a level below stardom, much of his work was unattributed.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2018
• According to a network source, the unattributed passages were caught during routine editing.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2022
• 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
• Some legislative employees shared copies of an unattributed flyer calling for armed rallies on Jan. 17.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2021
• Another 19 deaths in that period of time are still unattributed awaiting review by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
  — Jon Kelvey, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 6 Aug. 2019
• After the Post story published, the Red Stars hired a crisis communications firm and later released a handful of unattributed statements that also were short on details.
  — Jeremy Mikula, chicagotribune.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Gray propaganda is the communication from an unattributed or hidden source.
  — Jeff Bradford, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Those beliefs were rooted in the same circumstantial evidence, unattributed reports and inaccuracies that Mr. Bolsonaro has promoted for years to claim that Brazil’s elections are rife with fraud.
  — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• Telegram has published the unattributed screenshot, with its inference, rather than restating the allegation itself.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 16 May 2021
• The pair discovered the previously unattributed image while conducting research for a forthcoming book at the National Library of Australia.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2020
• 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
• Additional context for details would have been helpful, too: Names appear without introduction; unattributed and uncited quotes abound, leaving the reader to wonder who is speaking.
  — Jessica Hopper, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024