How to Use unsupported in a Sentence

unsupported

adjective
  • In its statement, UC said the union’s claims are unsupported by the facts.
    Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Once the shelf is in place, the cleat is hidden from view and the shelf appears to be floating unsupported.
    Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 24 Jan. 2019
  • Also, be wary of the unsupported claims out there about what bathing in these substances can do.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2021
  • White said Becerra moved to avoid debris, stepped on the unsupported area and plunged through the roof.
    Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2020
  • Their views echo the unsupported claims Trump has made since Election Day.
    Anchorage Daily News, 13 Nov. 2020
  • To qualify for the unsupported FKT, no one can help you.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The research found that nearly a third of Gen Z women feel unsupported by their peers.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 17 May 2023
  • So are the most vocal leaders of the attempts to remove her, many of whom also back Trump's unsupported claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2024
  • So are the most vocal leaders of the attempts to remove her, many of whom also back Trump's unsupported claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2024
  • There has been a lot of unsupported speculation that the Adelsons had something to do with the murder.
    Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2019
  • The software platform used is unsupported in the market.
    Michael O'Reilly, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • Our teachers and administrators don't want even one child to slip through the cracks and go unsupported.
    Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The letter writer is correct, of course, that Rep. Ken Buck’s statement is both absurd and unsupported by facts.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The unsupported idea that the United States was developing bioweapons in Ukraine has been nurtured for years in Russia.
    New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • In that settings menu, there is also an option to apply VRR to unsupported games.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The alleged boom in krill populations, which was supposed to have followed the decline of the whales, has turned out to be largely unsupported.
    Lucy Jakub, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Secured to the gallery walls with pins, the paintings—like the blissful people depicted within them—seem to float unsupported.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • Her silence, words, and actions since Hamas’ mass murder and rape have made her constituents, Jews and non-Jews, feel unsupported and unsafe.
    Lisa Silverstein Nelson, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • That often means curves, whether arches, vaults, rotundas or domes (take the Pantheon in Rome, still the world’s largest unsupported dome in the world almost 2,000 years later).
    Tom Page, CNN, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Right before the robot was brought on stage, one of the engineers made clear that this was going to be the first time that the robot would be walking untethered and unsupported.
    IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2022
  • And even Mach 10 is, at the moment, Putin’s unsupported assertion.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
  • The city approved the emergency demolition to address the hazards of unsupported walls caused by the fire.
    Gwozniac, oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The two men aimed to smash the world record for the fastest unsupported row across the Atlantic, successfully completed only about a dozen times, according to his team.
    Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The crane on the building is unsupported and authorities are working to evacuate the area.
    Madeleine Carlisle, Time, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Having an unsupported speaker would mean that the whole system won’t get the new features and upgrades—the chain is only as strong as its oldest speaker.
    Popular Science, 24 Jan. 2020
  • But in the end, his unsupported statements and his attorney’s twisted logic fooled no one.
    Amanda Arnold, The Cut, 23 May 2018
  • If a website or service requires an up-to-date browser to access it, does that mean the unsupported Chromebook is now worthless?
    Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 9 Mar. 2021
  • This is an unsupported statement because the data on hourly wages for private workers only go back to 2006, not decades.
    Christopher Rugaber, The Seattle Times, 6 Feb. 2019
  • Just an unsupported statement that the graduate student was out on his own stargazing on a cloudy, frigid pre-dawn morning in an empty rural park when the murders occurred?
    Howard Blum, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • This does something to help families handle the economic shock of losing someone, but still leaves thousands unsupported.
    Monika Mondal, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2024

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