unaccompanied

adjective

ˌən-ə-ˈkəmp-nēd How to pronounce unaccompanied (audio)
Definition of unaccompaniednext
as in lone
not being in the company of others an unaccompanied child on the airplane flight

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Recent Examples of unaccompanied Marseille, France’s second-largest city, imposed a curfew for unaccompanied minors starting Tuesday night. — Tom Nouvian, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026 Upon taking office, the Biden administration stopped turning away unaccompanied child migrants, attempted to halt Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations for 100 days, and suspended border wall construction. — Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026 In August, a small Texas law firm withdrew from consideration for a $150 million federal contract to represent unaccompanied migrant children after immigrant advocacy groups raised concerns about the firm's degree of experience in immigration law. — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026 In July, when the Monitor asked the Department of Health and Human Services about an AI product designed to evaluate the sponsors of unaccompanied immigrant children, evidence of it disappeared from the agency’s website. — Story Hinckley, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unaccompanied
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaccompanied
  1. lone
  2. lonely
  3. solo
  4. single
  5. solitary
  6. alone
Adjective
  • Massie was the lone Republican to vote with all Democrats against it.
    — Sophia Vlahakis, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Tan makes an appearance for the midsole, and a lone hit of green comes at the pivot point of the outsole.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 9 Nov. 2026
Definition of lone
Adjective
  • Will the Mona Lisa’s smile feel lonelier if she’s removed from her current gallery in the Louvre and placed in a new one by herself?
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 9 Nov. 2026
  • Neither approach is wrong, but misunderstandings can arise when one partner feels crowded and the other feels lonely.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of lonely
Adjective
  • Ciarán himself has spent an itinerant four years since Brockhampton’s dissolution in 2022 crafting Róisín, a solo debut that looks back through today’s bedroom-pop bricolage into the roomy vaults of D’Angelo and Prince.
    — H.D. Angel, Pitchfork, 9 Nov. 2026
  • Lloyd would release nine solo albums after Television, and he and Verlaine, despite a prickly relationship, occasionally reunited the band.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of solo
Adjective
  • The customers ordering them aren’t from a single demographic.
    — Evan Moore November 12, Charlotte Observer, 12 Nov. 2026
  • The team wrote an algorithm that generates a virtual blueprint for a material without using a single repeating pattern.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of single
Adjective
  • In terms of its creation, Technology was mostly a solitary affair, with Leigh writing and producing every song on the six-track release.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Writing the book has been a very solitary experience—done after Viva falls asleep—and finally getting to squeeze my pals and feel less alone in it is a balm to my nerves.
    — Tarajia Morrell, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of solitary
Adjective
  • Turner was hardly alone among artists in devoting the same intensity of care to the enrichment of a painting that others give to the rearing of a child.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2026
  • In contrast to loneliness’s 2023 diagnosis as a modern behavioral epidemic, there’s a growing trend of midlife women flipping the script and choosing to be alone.
    — Cheryl Fenton, Flow Space, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of alone

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“Unaccompanied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaccompanied. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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