How to Use unfounded in a Sentence

unfounded

adjective

• The sponsors of the bill said those claims are unfounded.
  — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 4 Feb. 2024
• The district told The Times that these claims are unfounded.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
• Fears of a content drought due to the strikes that shut down the film industry were unfounded.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
• In other words the idea that this is a washout weekend is unfounded.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• Reports that a train station in the city was among the targets were unfounded.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 18 Apr. 2022
• Kennedy spoke at length about the unfounded claims that vaccines and gluten could cause or worsen autism.
  — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 24 June 2024
• The fans' worries have proved to be unfounded and there is no suggestion this will happen to The Acolyte.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• The justices agreed that the removal of juror No. 5 was unfounded and had prejudiced the outcome of the case.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• The researchers say that in truth, the idea that money can be enough to make someone happy is unfounded.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2023
• Then, the department learned that there had been a false positive on the test and deemed the case unfounded, according to the records.
  — Hannah Rappleye, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2022
• Talk of a place in the first 12-team College Football Playoff isn’t unfounded.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024
• Since then, however, fears that the war would cut off all exports through the Black Sea have proved unfounded.
  — David J. Lynch, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
• Will Leighton find the strength to overcome her unfounded fears, no doubt ingrained in her by her parents?
  — Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2021
• Lindell has pushed unfounded claims of voter fraud since Trump lost to Biden.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2021
• The case was thrown out after a court determined the woman's claims were unfounded.
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2021
• And perhaps Heather should have apologized to Lisa for a nasty attack that turned out to be unfounded.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
• Hobbs, as the state's election chief, stood up to unfounded claims that Trump had lost the 2020 presidential vote due to widespread fraud.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 15 Nov. 2022
• But The Chronicle found many false or unfounded posts that were not removed.
  — Kaylee Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2021
• Rankin said the report of a firearm being involved in the incident was unfounded.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2025
• Though her concerns are completely unfounded, give his mother the time and space to come around.
  — Annie Lane, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022
• The sense you were diminished in the eyes of others was and is likely unfounded (though your friend almost surely was).
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• Taylor Greene hasn’t been the only one who’s been pushing such unfounded claims.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• Whether they are aimed at Noem herself, or the decision to shoehorn this bit in two weeks later, the boos are not unfounded.
  — Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 19 May 2024
• The show has resumed at the @lvrsnfrndsfest after a report of gunfire heard near the festival was deemed unfounded.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2022
• The file noted that the allegations by the couple against Grayson were deemed unfounded.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
• Their fears were not unfounded: What structure could match the matchless Golden Gate?
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2022
• Video of her comments has been shared on social media, pushing the unfounded claim that water seeding was to blame for the storms.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• Moreover, claims that mifepristone threatens the health of those who take it are unfounded.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 16 Apr. 2023
• While police said the report of a migrant takeover was unfounded, there was at least one homicide this year at the complex where the offenders and victims were Venezuelan.
  — Armando L. Sanchez, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2025
• Many claim to have knowledge but lack any connection to the truth, while their wild, unfounded theories are cut and sensationalized to appear factual.
  — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 28 Feb 2025