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
  • The court found that conclusion was unsupported in the record.
    Ted Sickinger, OregonLive.com, 4 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • My arches felt unsupported, which led to a nagging pain at the bottom of my feet.
    Brandon T. Harden, Philly.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • To qualify for the unsupported FKT, no one can help you.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The feat comes about a year after Peterson set the trail’s unsupported record in August of 2023.
    Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 26 Sep. 2024
  • 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, 6 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, 9 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
  • But its power to do anything at all to the timing of your period is unsupported.
    Hayley MacMillen, Allure, 21 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • If your arms feel too heavy or the shoulders feel unsupported, place blocks or pillows under your forearms.
    Justicia Declue, Philly.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • In a state where DeSantis has harnessed culture war passions in his education policies, Swindle said many of his teachers feel unsupported.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 17 June 2024

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