unattributed
adjective
un·at·trib·ut·ed
ˌən-ə-ˈtri-ˌbyü-təd 
-byə-
: not ascribed or credited to a source : not attributed
an unattributed quote
unattributed paintings
Examples of unattributed in a Sentence
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On June 4, 2022, Media Today, a Chinese-language media group in Australia, experienced an unattributed cyberattack against its user accounts.
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Christopher K. Tong, The Conversation, 31 May 2024
In the past 24 hours, several news outlets picked up an unattributed article posted Tuesday on the online film website, World of Reel, stating that actress and comedian Aubrey Plaza is scheduled to star as the novel’s protagonist, Marsha Sprinkles.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 28 Feb. 2024
That was an errant number, which could be traced back to an unattributed claim from a 1990 article in The Independent by the British journalist Geraldine Norman about the antiquities market.
—Zachary Small, New York Times, 18 May 2024
The plagiarism accusations first struck Claudine Gay when a right-wing activist published several examples of unattributed text from the Harvard president’s academic writings.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
Parsing this formulation requires familiarity with two relatively trivial online entities—Pop Crave and Chart Data—both of which exist to spew unattributed pop-culture facts into the ether.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2023
Additional context for details would have been helpful, too: Names appear without introduction; unattributed and uncited quotes abound, leaving the reader to wonder who is speaking.
—Jessica Hopper, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
Misinformation about potential voter fraud also spread rapidly in conservative corners of the Brazilian internet, including unattributed videos that purported to show voting machines malfunctioning and out-of-the-blue claims that election officials had rigged the vote.
—André Spigariol, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
This setup, along with cascades of unattributed dialogue and quicksilver narratorial intrusions, gives the book a kind of flickering reality that feels truly sublime, and somehow an epitome of what writing can be: multivoiced, from different perspectives at once, Pessoaesque.
—Damion Searls, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2021
Christopher K. Tong, The Conversation, 31 May 2024
In the past 24 hours, several news outlets picked up an unattributed article posted Tuesday on the online film website, World of Reel, stating that actress and comedian Aubrey Plaza is scheduled to star as the novel’s protagonist, Marsha Sprinkles.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 28 Feb. 2024
That was an errant number, which could be traced back to an unattributed claim from a 1990 article in The Independent by the British journalist Geraldine Norman about the antiquities market.
—Zachary Small, New York Times, 18 May 2024
The plagiarism accusations first struck Claudine Gay when a right-wing activist published several examples of unattributed text from the Harvard president’s academic writings.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
Parsing this formulation requires familiarity with two relatively trivial online entities—Pop Crave and Chart Data—both of which exist to spew unattributed pop-culture facts into the ether.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2023
Additional context for details would have been helpful, too: Names appear without introduction; unattributed and uncited quotes abound, leaving the reader to wonder who is speaking.
—Jessica Hopper, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
Misinformation about potential voter fraud also spread rapidly in conservative corners of the Brazilian internet, including unattributed videos that purported to show voting machines malfunctioning and out-of-the-blue claims that election officials had rigged the vote.
—André Spigariol, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
This setup, along with cascades of unattributed dialogue and quicksilver narratorial intrusions, gives the book a kind of flickering reality that feels truly sublime, and somehow an epitome of what writing can be: multivoiced, from different perspectives at once, Pessoaesque.
—Damion Searls, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2021
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