1
as in unnamed
not named or identified by a name
the victim of the crime will remain nameless to protect his privacy those nameless editors who write the synopses for TV shows in the newspaper
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as in incredible
beyond the power to describe
was seized with a nameless, vague fear that made her seek the companionship of another person
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as in unknown
not widely known
a nameless poet who has just been rediscovered by devotees of love poems
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Recent Examples of nameless
Walsh’s male fantasists—the nameless rubes of Ballyturk, the desperate suitors of Penelope, even the heartbroken father at the center of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers—get to strut and bluster and scream into the wind.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025
Season 4 of Sweet Magnolias is still looming large in Netflix’s Top 10, but fans — and a certain TVLine editor who shall remain nameless (me) — are already eager to find out what’s next for the good people of Serenity.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 23 Feb. 2025
Who enters nameless? Historical Catalogue of the Members of the First Church of
Christ in New Haven, Connecticut, A.D. 1639–1914
Compiled by Franklin Bowditch Dexter
CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS, 1726–28
May 15.
—Reginald Dwayne Betts, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2025
But their therapy session is deliberately drowned out by the squeals of a nameless naked couple romping in the back.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2025
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025
Season 4 of Sweet Magnolias is still looming large in Netflix’s Top 10, but fans — and a certain TVLine editor who shall remain nameless (me) — are already eager to find out what’s next for the good people of Serenity.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 23 Feb. 2025
Who enters nameless? Historical Catalogue of the Members of the First Church of
Christ in New Haven, Connecticut, A.D. 1639–1914
Compiled by Franklin Bowditch Dexter
CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS, 1726–28
May 15.
—Reginald Dwayne Betts, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2025
But their therapy session is deliberately drowned out by the squeals of a nameless naked couple romping in the back.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nameless
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Perez was a high-level drug trafficker with connections to an unnamed Mexican drug cartel, prosecutors wrote in court papers.—
Matthew Ormseth,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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In the newest litigation against Lake, Morales and USAGM, two of the unnamed plaintiffs are described as freelance journalists working under contract to VOA.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
21 Mar. 2025
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Sir Elton has exemplified these ideals throughout his extraordinary career, not only with his incredible musical catalogue and immense talent but also championing emerging artists across genres and using his global platform to inspire transformational humanistic change.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
20 Mar. 2025
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Kentucky, 2014:UConn knows all about beating an 8-seed that went on an incredible run through the tournament.—
Kels Dayton,
Hartford Courant,
20 Mar. 2025
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Almost all of the cases are in unvaccinated individuals or in individuals whose vaccination status is unknown, health officials said.—
Youri Benadjaoud,
ABC News,
13 Mar. 2025
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At this time, the containment status is unknown and the cause of the fire remains undetermined.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacramento Bee,
13 Mar. 2025
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The unidentified woman who claimed Jay-Z raped her at a 2000 party said a recording released by his attorneys twisted her words, according to a report published last week.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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An unidentified source familiar with the tracking program told Reuters that DOGE's cutting funding for the program has resulted in the deletion of $26 million of war crimes evidence protecting Putin.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 2025
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Guralnick / Detroit News / AP file An alternative medicine clinic where a Michigan boy suffered an unspeakable death has put a spotlight on the largely unregulated world of hyperbaric oxygen therapy that is offered outside of hospitals.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC News,
17 Mar. 2025
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Even if those two men didn’t make it out of Europe alive, the unspeakable acts carried out in the name of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich would still live on in infamy, reminding humanity what blind hatred and xenophobia could lead to if a society wasn’t careful.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Russia’s ideological efforts in this domain were so effective in Romania’s 2024 presidential election, for instance, that an obscure far-right presidential candidate, Cǎlin Georgescu, came out of nowhere and won the first round.—
Michael McFaul,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
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Prior to 1950, McCarthy was an obscure first-term senator from Wisconsin.—
Beverly Gage,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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Speaking to The Texas Tribune, Randy Howry, the anonymous woman's lawyer, said they had been told the money wouldn't be paid until the completion of separate investigations led by Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Texas Rangers, who form part of the Texas Department of Public Safety.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 2025
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In a post shared on an anonymous Reddit forum, the woman writes that her husband lost his wife, Sarah, five years ago.—
Virginia Chamlee,
People.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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There are also plenty of new songs (even the trio of musical numbers carried over from the original have extensive new lyrics from Benj Pasek and Justin Paul), though none of them have the same special, ineffable quality of the originals.—
Josh Spiegel,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Mar. 2025
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The telescope will observe each ecliptic pole once every orbit all mission long, seeking something seemingly ineffable: the faint signal of all the light emitted over the universe’s history, which SPHEREx scientists will then parse out across time.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
28 Feb. 2025
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