unconfirmed

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Recent Examples of unconfirmed President Donald Trump is getting frustrated with a growing backlog of unconfirmed diplomatic nominees piling up on the Senate floor. Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 16 July 2025 But the book has been a hot topic on the cable news network for much of the last week, in tandem with unconfirmed claims about Biden’s cognitive acuity while serving in the White House. Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 20 May 2025 If the system is not able to estimate the user’s age with high confidence, then the user’s age will remain unconfirmed and the user won’t be able to access Trusted Connections. Jennifer Maas, Variety, 17 July 2025 Numerous potential suitors for TikTok have emerged so far, with a front-runner, according to unconfirmed reports, being enterprise software giant Oracle. Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 6 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for unconfirmed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unconfirmed
Adjective
  • Martin replaced former Chief Keith Tomey, who was fired over misconduct allegations involving the misuse of a city vehicle, city firefighters playing in a charity softball game, and unproven claims of retaliatory behavior involving City Manager Terrence Moore.
    Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2025
  • Depth is the bigger question for TCU as the Horned Frogs are unproven and will need some younger players to step up.
    Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • One in seven pilots died in crashes, usually due to faulty, untested aircraft or poor visibility in changeable weather.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2025
  • But the move would be foolhardy for a largely untested navy.
    Kerry Brown, Time, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • Jones was charged with three felonies — theft of a credit card, criminal use of personal identification information, and fraudulent use of a credit card over two times within six months, the Tallahassee Democrat reported.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Candidates flagged for fraudulent behavior had a 27% lower quality of hire than their honest peers, according to the same study.
    Michael Fitzsimmons, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • At Comedy Central, Colbert rose to prominence playing a slightly exaggerated version of Bill O’Reilly and other unapologetically mendacious Fox News pundits from the George W. Bush years.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2025
  • The true story reveals both how freedom of speech first came to be conceived of as a mechanism for truth, an antidote to falsehood, and the foundation of all liberty—and that, ironically, this new and powerful theory was itself a deliberately mendacious fiction.
    Fara Dabhoiwala, Harpers Magazine, 4 June 2025

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“Unconfirmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unconfirmed. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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