: not having a name or identified by name : not named
a newly discovered and unnamed species
received their information from an unnamed informant
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used some unnamed procedure for testing the accuracy of the device
the newspaper article quoted several unnamed sources
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The bureau identified three other suspects in the surveillance operation, including two unnamed hardware engineers and a financier, a woman known as Wang.
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Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
The deluge, directed at an unnamed Cloudflare customer, came from 13,000 IoT devices infected by a variant of Mirai, a potent piece of malware with a long history of delivering massive DDoSes of once-unimaginable sizes.
—Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2025
Overhauling federal bureaucracy Trump has halted federal government hires, excepting the military and other parts of government that went unnamed.
—Colleen Long, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Overhauling federal bureaucracy Trump has halted federal government hiring, excepting the military and other parts of government that went unnamed.
—Bill Barrow, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
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Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
The deluge, directed at an unnamed Cloudflare customer, came from 13,000 IoT devices infected by a variant of Mirai, a potent piece of malware with a long history of delivering massive DDoSes of once-unimaginable sizes.
—Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2025
Overhauling federal bureaucracy Trump has halted federal government hires, excepting the military and other parts of government that went unnamed.
—Colleen Long, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Overhauling federal bureaucracy Trump has halted federal government hiring, excepting the military and other parts of government that went unnamed.
—Bill Barrow, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
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“Unnamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unnamed. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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