How to Use unaffiliated in a Sentence

unaffiliated

adjective
  • What is clear is that Trump lost a good amount of ground among the religious unaffiliated.
    Ryan Burge, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Most of the rest of the county’s voters are unaffiliated.
    Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
  • At the same time, the number of unaffiliated voters has swelled to 3.8 million.
    Fox News, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The video was a wake-up call for Molly Hanten, a co-founder of Alchemy 365, a small chain of fitness studios unaffiliated with the gym where the confrontation took place.
    Kavita Kumar, Star Tribune, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Half of the state’s new voters in the past four years live in its four biggest counties, and most of them are registering as unaffiliated.
    Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
  • He is listed as an unaffiliated voter in his home state of Ohio.
    CBS News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The case had been brought by a group of Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters, who prevailed in a 4–3 ruling in the state’s Supreme Court.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • In the middle, go for the fajitas, which one (unaffiliated) restaurateur says are the best in Dallas.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 15 July 2021
  • What about those figures that Peter cites, those unaffiliated voters who are up for grabs right now?
    NBC News, 22 Sep. 2024
  • In Kansas, a large share of unaffiliated voters turned out to vote in the August 2022 primary.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Curio holds the trademark on the name, and the two AI products are totally unaffiliated, Curio says.
    Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Black Americans born since 1980 are far more likely to be among the unaffiliated.
    David Crary, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021
  • That figure is about 3% of the unaffiliated registered voters in the state.
    Mark Murray, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • No one unaffiliated with either of the two parties has ever won statewide office there.
    Robert Draper, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • But as lawmakers consider where to draw the lines, there’s no way to know which type of leaner an unaffiliated Oregon voter might be.
    oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2021
  • But what does a healthy eating expert unaffiliated with GOLO think of this diet plan?
    Emily Laurence, Good Housekeeping, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The committee will be made up of six members: two from each major party and two unaffiliated people.
    Peter Marteka, courant.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The bill would replace the five unaffiliated members, who all lived out of state, with members who are appointed by the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker of the House.
    James Barragán, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Although the property is owned by United Methodists, Mount Eagle is open to people and groups of all faiths as well as the religiously unaffiliated.
    Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 29 July 2023
  • But when it was crafted, the assumption was that unaffiliated voters — 29% of all voters statewide — would be able to sign petitions for any party.
    Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The Durbin amendment, part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, enables merchants to choose from at least two unaffiliated debit-card networks when routing transactions.
    Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
  • According to the Secretary of State’s office, there are more than 1 million unaffiliated voters in the state.
    Hartford Courant, 5 July 2022
  • Six of the eight would-be electors list themselves as Republicans on their filings for West; the other two list themselves as unaffiliated with any party.
    Bryn Stole | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Many Democrats and unaffiliated voters signed the recall petitions, the suit said, and the election was authorized by state law rather than an illicit power grab.
    Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The formula for winning the 4th hinges on keeping your base and winning a chunk of moderate, unaffiliated voters.
    Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The unaffiliated voters are the second-largest voting group in the state, following the Democratic Party.
    Joan Muwahed and, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Almost half of the voters in the district, or 45%, are registered as unaffiliated voters.
    Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The group’s large size (the team, family members, and unaffiliated strangers on the chartered flight) means that not every character develops a significant arc before the plane is in the air.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The lawsuit was brought by a group of unaffiliated and Republican voters and aided by a liberal watchdog group based in Washington, D.C.
    Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Another 24% are unaffiliated or align with a third party.
    Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024

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