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as in unnamed
not named or identified by a name
some unidentified person helped them and then left quietly
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Recent Examples of unidentified
Major thoroughfares are also often the site of large homeless populations, and nearly three dozen hit-and-run victims in Sacramento County since 2018 remain unidentified by the coroner, suggesting many were homeless men and women.
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Ryan Lillis, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
Then an unidentified Gundam mobile suit pursued by both the space force and the police appears before her, along with its pilot, a boy named Shuji.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
The unidentified individual, who police believe is homeless, is being held on $150,000 bail.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 17 Jan. 2025
The screen star was attacked in the early hours at his family home, according to his representatives, after an unidentified man entered the property.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
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Ryan Lillis, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
Then an unidentified Gundam mobile suit pursued by both the space force and the police appears before her, along with its pilot, a boy named Shuji.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
The unidentified individual, who police believe is homeless, is being held on $150,000 bail.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 17 Jan. 2025
The screen star was attacked in the early hours at his family home, according to his representatives, after an unidentified man entered the property.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unidentified
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Drinkwater didn't make one appearance in a Chelsea shirt last season, whilst Bakayoko spent the season in Italy on loan at AC Milan.—
SI.com,
SI.com,
3 Aug. 2019
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Decisions made by engineers today, in other words, will determine not how one car drives but how all cars drive.—
Johannes Himmelreich,
BostonGlobe.com,
30 Mar. 2018
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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,
Ars Technica,
22 Jan. 2025
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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.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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This perspective aligns with moves like Lummis's 2023 amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, targeting anonymous transactions and asset mixers, and shows how the SRA framework could enforce stringent oversight, reducing bitcoin's utility as a censorship-resistant currency.—
Susie Violet Ward,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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In the anonymous world of football message boards, anybody could be lurking.—
Phil Hay,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Unidentified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unidentified. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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