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Recent Examples of unapproved
What’s more, 57% of regular employees using unapproved AI tools had approval from their managers.
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Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
Electric vehicle owners, beware: Buying a cheap, unapproved converter to connect your EV to a Tesla DC fast charger — or connect your Tesla to the more common CCS charger — could damage your vehicle.
—Mark Phelan, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
The instinct to simply ban unapproved AI may backfire, driving usage further underground.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
But the search continues, and despite all those pitfalls, hospitals and physicians are using unapproved tests that are available to screen patients, often at exorbitant costs.
—Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
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Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
Electric vehicle owners, beware: Buying a cheap, unapproved converter to connect your EV to a Tesla DC fast charger — or connect your Tesla to the more common CCS charger — could damage your vehicle.
—Mark Phelan, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
The instinct to simply ban unapproved AI may backfire, driving usage further underground.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
But the search continues, and despite all those pitfalls, hospitals and physicians are using unapproved tests that are available to screen patients, often at exorbitant costs.
—Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unapproved
Adjective
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Small, unauthorized charges can be early signs of fraud.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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The city passed new rules in April quadrupling the fines on developers for unauthorized cutting of trees.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Oct. 2025
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The record companies accused the two AI platforms of massive copyright infringement by training their models on millions of unlicensed works from their catalogs.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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An unknown number of unlicensed rehabilitation clinics in Colombia and elsewhere in Latin America offer such therapy based on the idea that homosexuality, bisexuality and transgender identities are a mental illness that needs to be cured, rights groups said.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Security gates are located at every Loop entrance and exit to prevent unsanctioned entry.—
Hadley Hitson,
Nashville Tennessean,
22 Oct. 2025
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During his sojourn in Philadelphia, Ali constantly challenged Frazier to unsanctioned fights.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Laboratory tests of smuggled samples taken from late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny show that he was poisoned when he was imprisoned in a Siberian penal colony, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has said.—
Anna Chernova,
CNN Money,
17 Sep. 2025
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Inevitably, a few students were surreptitiously checking smuggled screens that day.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Unapproved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unapproved. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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