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Recent Examples of unsanctioned
In 2005, the trail and several formerly unsanctioned connected routes were adopted into the Tonto National Forest system.
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Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2024
The scrutiny threatens to expose Nina’s secret side job — visiting village homes of pregnant girls and women to provide unsanctioned abortions.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
The unsanctioned events, which have been a problem in Oakland for decades and have spread to other Bay Area cities, were at several locations from West Oakland to East Oakland between 1:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. attracting between dozens and hundreds of participants and observers, police said.
—Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2024
City officials attributed 88% of the pollution in the waterways to the unsanctioned encampments, and Mahan warned that failure to meet those mandates could result in tens of thousands of dollars in daily fines.
—Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024
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Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2024
The scrutiny threatens to expose Nina’s secret side job — visiting village homes of pregnant girls and women to provide unsanctioned abortions.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
The unsanctioned events, which have been a problem in Oakland for decades and have spread to other Bay Area cities, were at several locations from West Oakland to East Oakland between 1:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. attracting between dozens and hundreds of participants and observers, police said.
—Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2024
City officials attributed 88% of the pollution in the waterways to the unsanctioned encampments, and Mahan warned that failure to meet those mandates could result in tens of thousands of dollars in daily fines.
—Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsanctioned
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Sponsor assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communication line failure, theft, or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of the Media.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
14 Jan. 2025
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Preliminary findings indicate that an unauthorized person obtained certain files, which could contain personal data.—
Wes Davis,
The Verge,
13 Jan. 2025
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By the numbers: Nearly 1.7 million prescriptions were written for these medications in Ohio alone in 2024. Between the lines: Officials in multiple states have warned consumers about unapproved versions of medications being sold as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound.—
Andrew King,
Axios,
6 Jan. 2025
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Additional health code violations ranged from a lack of paper towels near the kitchen’s handwashing sink to a missing food handler card and the use of unapproved kitchen equipment.—
Hannah Poukish,
Sacramento Bee,
3 Jan. 2025
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Augustin Lorenzo Telly, a 26-year Stockton police veteran, was booked into San Joaquin County Jail on charges including the unlicensed sale of a firearm, conspiracy and an open charge of soliciting specified criminal acts.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
22 Jan. 2025
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Police said 1,576 unlicensed miners had emerged from the mine by their own means before the rescue operation began.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Unsanctioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsanctioned. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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