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Recent Examples of undocumented
Spoon cited her debate in 2024 against a bill to increase local law enforcement officials’ ability to enforce federal immigration laws, in which Mickelsen spoke about the agriculture industry’s reliance on undocumented workers.
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Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 29 Jan. 2026
And state law prohibits Charlotte or any other North Carolina city from adopting sanctuary policies for undocumented immigrants, said Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden, a frequent target of criticism from federal and local leaders over his interactions, or lack thereof, with ICE.
—Charlotte Observer, 28 Jan. 2026
Those deaths came amid Operation Metro Surge, which has seen thousands of federal agents arrive in Minneapolis, where they've been tasked in part with detaining undocumented immigrants.
—Rachel Scott, ABC News, 28 Jan. 2026
Local law enforcement has the authority to serve and execute administrative warrants on undocumented people in their custody when given the authority by ICE through the Warrant Service Officer model, per ICE.
—David Ulloa Jr, AZCentral.com, 28 Jan. 2026
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Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 29 Jan. 2026
And state law prohibits Charlotte or any other North Carolina city from adopting sanctuary policies for undocumented immigrants, said Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden, a frequent target of criticism from federal and local leaders over his interactions, or lack thereof, with ICE.
—Charlotte Observer, 28 Jan. 2026
Those deaths came amid Operation Metro Surge, which has seen thousands of federal agents arrive in Minneapolis, where they've been tasked in part with detaining undocumented immigrants.
—Rachel Scott, ABC News, 28 Jan. 2026
Local law enforcement has the authority to serve and execute administrative warrants on undocumented people in their custody when given the authority by ICE through the Warrant Service Officer model, per ICE.
—David Ulloa Jr, AZCentral.com, 28 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undocumented
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Justices posed various hypothetical questions throughout and, at times, got into tense lines of questioning while trying to understand the attorneys’ arguments and what previous cases reflect about this one.—
Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
13 Jan. 2026
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Hartnett suggested the hypothetical wasn’t necessarily what her side was arguing.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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Golf’s resurgence isn’t being carried by a single superstar or a speculative building boom.—
Steve Skinner,
Sportico.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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For institutions and individuals to look to crypto as anything more than a speculative asset, the technology must have legitimate use cases and outperform existing solutions.—
Matthew Kayser,
Freep.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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From a per-60 standpoint, Celebrini has a small but significant enough edge in scoring chances and expected goals against to be called the better two-way player, but the idea that Celebrini is Patrice Bergeron and Bedard is late-stage Alex Ovechkin is apocryphal at best, laughable at worst.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2026
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The apocryphal Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew – especially versions that incorporate material from an even earlier apocryphal gospel, the Infancy Gospel of Thomas – focuses on the years of Jesus’ childhood.—
Mary Dzon,
The Conversation,
12 Dec. 2025
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As with every cycle, some schools will benefit more than others from district realignment, but Carter said getting too wrapped up in theoretical scenarios doesn’t serve much purpose.—
Colby Gordon,
Austin American Statesman,
31 Jan. 2026
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Originally, this was a great mystery, as cosmic rays were known to be composed almost exclusively of protons, and the theoretical limit on a proton that traveled through intergalactic space should forbid such excessively high energies.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
30 Jan. 2026
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The bottom three stars can then be used to point the way to the Andromeda galaxy, by following an imaginary line from the 'base' of the stellar triangle up through the bright star Shedar and beyond, as shown in the finder map above.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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In demonstrating the technology to CalMatters, using an imaginary 56-year-old female patient who complained of trouble breathing, Scope asked several follow-up questions to drill down on her symptoms.—
Cal Matters,
Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Moore said that no matter how famous a host or a guest is, or how elaborate and slick a production is, an unauthentic product will not resonate with audiences.—
Yahya Salem,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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Inaccurate debunks Amid the recycled imagery, authentic pictures of National Guard members sleeping on the floor of a federal building in Los Angeles this week were falsely described as old or unauthentic.—
Emma Li,
CBS News,
11 June 2025
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The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has been hollowed out (and has continued to bleed talent even this week) and has been reoriented around chimerical right-wing causes such as claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.—
David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
14 Jan. 2026
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There’s also ongoing progress in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy and other immunotherapies for cancer, as well as in personalized cancer vaccines.—
The Editors,
Scientific American,
16 Dec. 2025
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Corridors are bedecked in vivid wallpaper with oversized flora and animals, real and mythical, and the hotel’s art collection that meets your eye around every corner is a go-for-broke assemblage of everything from old-world oils to ambitious mixed media and 20th-century American photography.—
Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Jan. 2026
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Buddhist Symbolism And Pop-Culture Surprises Even the walk to the temple’s main hall, surrounded by a watery moat, is a mythical spectacle.—
Vicky Smith,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Undocumented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undocumented. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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