How to Use unsourced in a Sentence

unsourced

adjective
  • This is not hearsay, not fake news, not unsourced leaks.
    Charles Krauthammer, National Review, 13 July 2017
  • This is not hearsay, not fake news, not unsourced leaks.
    Alaska Dispatch News, 13 July 2017
  • The post, however, is unsourced and does not provide further details.
    Chelsea Brasted, NOLA.com, 20 May 2018
  • This is unsourced nonsense from people trying to stir up controversy where there is none.
    Hillary Busis, HWD, 17 Jan. 2017
  • A few people were fooled by an old tweet of when Durant suffered a knee injury last year and others read unsourced material about how hurt KD is.
    Daniel Mano, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2017
  • Just last week a couple of chuckle meisters who run a Clippers podcast floated an unsourced report that Iguodala would be joining the team.
    Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • According to a multitude of unsourced accounts, soon after the family moved in, Luling’s son — or, according to some accounts, both of his sons — drowned in nearby Bayou St. John.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • To date, virtually everything that's been written by D.C. media has been false, uninformed and unsourced, and Governor Ducey won't comment on any aspect of this.
    Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 30 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Two days after that, another blogger repeated the unsourced story.
    Kyle Hopkins and Michelle Theriault Boots, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • The whole account, reported in several Spanish newspapers, is sketchy, unsourced and uncorroborated.
    George Calhoun, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Some practitioners, though, have shared inaccurate or unsourced information without prompting.
    New York Times, 14 July 2021

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