undocumented

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Recent Examples of undocumented In an April commentary published by the Union-Tribune, Jones argued that California’s sanctuary laws were actually harming law-abiding undocumented residents. Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2025 Critics of e-bike enforcement argue that minorities and undocumented immigrants will be most affected. Steve Cohen, New York Daily News, 13 July 2025 In New York, where waves of undocumented immigrants and asylum-seekers arriving by bus from Texas have ignited national debate, sudden shifts – in public policy or daily routine – can be devastating. Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 13 July 2025 Her father was American, and her mother was an undocumented Mexican immigrant. Geraldo Cadava, New Yorker, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for undocumented
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undocumented
Adjective
  • Some of them don't always make a lot of sense, but this hypothetical deal seems to have the groundwork of a potential trade this month.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
  • As directed by Grok’s cousin (or whatever), the hypothetical Labubu Movie from AI might be a trainwreck.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • While estimates for the amount of guidance in existence or birthed yearly may not be as speculative as extrasolar planetary life, the magnitude remains bathed in the radiation of indifference.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Butch Dill/Getty Images While the report is purely speculative at this point, Saban unretiring to get back into coaching wouldn't be a complete shock.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • An apocryphal story has George Washington breakfasting with Thomas Jefferson and referring to the Senate as a saucer intended to cool the passions of the intemperate lower chamber.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
  • And there were apocryphal stories of women living in dread of their menfolk coming back if their team had lost.
    Stuart James, New York Times, 7 June 2025
Adjective
  • From my perspective, these shifts aren’t theoretical.
    Jack Thorogood, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • Carter, who had a doctorate in theoretical physics, dispatched a team of officers to the Bay Area to set up an outpost—officially called the Defense Innovation Unit, but known at the Pentagon as Unit X.
    Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • Is all this merely a sci-fi imaginary consideration?
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
  • Any other Countdown viewers dig their fingernails into an imaginary steering wheel when this second SUV followed his buddy into this left turn with zero regard for the oncoming white sedan?!
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Both games made changes to the core formula that longtime players didn't appreciate, such as an influx of unauthentic skins and a departure from the class system.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Projections of economic gains from major sporting events are typically optimistic, euphoric, chimerical or conjectural.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
  • In spite of everything, the setting continues to compel me, as does the puzzle of Flores’s fiction, which frames the South Texas border region as a territory both physical and chimerical.
    David L. Ulin, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Its mythical story left an indelible mark on my mind.
    Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Opened in 2020, the museum features interactive exhibits dedicated to the mythical sea creature.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 13 July 2025

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“Undocumented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undocumented. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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