1
as in one
known but not named
I heard the news from a person who will remain anonymous
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2
as in unnamed
not named or identified by a name
a beautiful manuscript illuminated by an anonymous medieval monk
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Recent Examples of anonymous
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has set up free, anonymous drop-off sites across the country where Americans can leave their unused prescription medications.
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Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
This could be anonymous reporting systems for employees and ensuring that bias is mitigated in workplace systems through tools like calibration and scorecards/rubrics for hiring.
—Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Here is a haven for the amateur, the anonymous, and the forgotten.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025
This wasn’t about anonymous quotes crushing a prospect.
—Jeff Howe, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
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Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
This could be anonymous reporting systems for employees and ensuring that bias is mitigated in workplace systems through tools like calibration and scorecards/rubrics for hiring.
—Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Here is a haven for the amateur, the anonymous, and the forgotten.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025
This wasn’t about anonymous quotes crushing a prospect.
—Jeff Howe, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anonymous
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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 unnamed child is responsible for damaging a 1960 Mark Rothko painting reportedly worth €50 (about $56 million) inside the Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam.—
Rachel McRady,
People.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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In an office-wide email obtained by ProPublica, Martin quoted an unnamed contact who compared the DOJ’s use of the obstruction statute to President Franklin Roosevelt’s decision to imprison more than 100,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II.—
Andy Kroll,
ProPublica,
28 Apr. 2025
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Garcia said Wednesday that police were searching for the two unidentified suspects.—
Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
8 May 2025
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Fungi remain poorly understood, with over 90 percent of species still unidentified, the Financial Times reported.—
Emma Marsden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 May 2025
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“Anonymous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anonymous. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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