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Recent Examples of unassociated
Those claims already stretched the limits of seriousness and legality, targeting splinter groups – at best – and other bad actors completely unassociated with Al Qaeda at worst.
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Alexander Langlois, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
And while there is a minor character, unassociated with any actual F1 race team, who emerges as a foil to Hayes, Bruckheimer made clear that the story centers on the tension between two drivers, the aging Hayes and the up-and-comer Pearce, on the same fictional team.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 13 June 2025
City officials became aware of the fraud on March 13 after a second payment approved for a city vendor was diverted to an unassociated bank account.
—Danny Tow, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2025
Denver Police said the shooting in the 2000 Block of Market Street — which is believed to be unassociated with the Nuggets celebrations — resulted in 10 total victims.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 13 June 2023
But the stone was so ancient, there was no way to really tell who was buried in the section of single graves unassociated with larger, family plots.
—Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
Prosecutors allege that Bankman-Fried tried several different methods to retrieve the more than $1 billion, including hiring attorneys to lobby Chinese authorities to return the funds and trying to transfer the money into accounts that appeared to be unassociated with his companies.
—Julian Mark, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
AccuWeather experts said there weren’t many examples of situations like the one happening with Nicole and the season’s first blizzard, where the two storms are unassociated with each other.
—Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
Hailing one of the city’s gypsy cabs —unmarked, unlicensed cars often driven by people unassociated with any company — seemed like my best bet.
—Marina Krakovsky, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
Alexander Langlois, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
And while there is a minor character, unassociated with any actual F1 race team, who emerges as a foil to Hayes, Bruckheimer made clear that the story centers on the tension between two drivers, the aging Hayes and the up-and-comer Pearce, on the same fictional team.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 13 June 2025
City officials became aware of the fraud on March 13 after a second payment approved for a city vendor was diverted to an unassociated bank account.
—Danny Tow, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2025
Denver Police said the shooting in the 2000 Block of Market Street — which is believed to be unassociated with the Nuggets celebrations — resulted in 10 total victims.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 13 June 2023
But the stone was so ancient, there was no way to really tell who was buried in the section of single graves unassociated with larger, family plots.
—Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
Prosecutors allege that Bankman-Fried tried several different methods to retrieve the more than $1 billion, including hiring attorneys to lobby Chinese authorities to return the funds and trying to transfer the money into accounts that appeared to be unassociated with his companies.
—Julian Mark, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
AccuWeather experts said there weren’t many examples of situations like the one happening with Nicole and the season’s first blizzard, where the two storms are unassociated with each other.
—Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
Hailing one of the city’s gypsy cabs —unmarked, unlicensed cars often driven by people unassociated with any company — seemed like my best bet.
—Marina Krakovsky, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unassociated
unrelated
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Johnson has rejected that claim, saying the delay is unrelated.—
NPR,
NPR,
27 Oct. 2025
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The commoditization of knowledge means people will interact with it in new ways, connecting previously unrelated things to create new insights and outcomes that generate value.—
Bipul Sinha,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Unassociated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unassociated. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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