: not having a name or identified by name : not named
a newly discovered and unnamed species
received their information from an unnamed informant
Examples of unnamed in a Sentence
used some unnamed procedure for testing the accuracy of the device
the newspaper article quoted several unnamed sources
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The unnamed man was on Mount Victoria trail, according to the Associated Press.
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Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
The terminal was previously unnamed.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
One example is an unnamed 15-year-old with an astounding 111 arrests since August 2023.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
The poem’s speaker is unnamed, one of the millions of Black Southerners who left the South for the North seeking an escape from Jim Crow, white supremacist terror, and coercive labor practices.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
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Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
The terminal was previously unnamed.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
One example is an unnamed 15-year-old with an astounding 111 arrests since August 2023.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
The poem’s speaker is unnamed, one of the millions of Black Southerners who left the South for the North seeking an escape from Jim Crow, white supremacist terror, and coercive labor practices.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unnamed
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“Unnamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unnamed. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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