undocumented

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Recent Examples of undocumented One of the motivating issues for the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and other extremist groups is strong opposition to undocumented immigrants. Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025 This perspective overlooks how capitalist employers purposely recruit undocumented immigrants to avoid following laws regarding the minimum wage and overtime pay, while too often stealing immigrant workers’ wages and placing them in hazardous work conditions. Chinyere Osuji, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2025 In most red states, those detainers are honored, allowing ICE to pick up thousands of undocumented immigrants directly from jail or prison. Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025 Trump has spoken for months about creating some kind of legal status for undocumented immigrants who work in the agriculture and hospitality industries, both of which are highly dependent on them. Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for undocumented
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undocumented
Adjective
  • In Baltimore County, this hypothetical is even worse.
    John Hohman, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Peltola, meanwhile, held a lead over Republican candidates in a hypothetical poll of the governor race.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Or a business model potentially based on selling unregistered securities in a highly volatile and speculative financial ecosystem.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Palantir earnings reaction will be a tell for the speculative crowd.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The music felt almost secondary to apocryphal stories tangential to the music.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • This score reflects real-world usage rather than theoretical task analysis.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The resulting mysteries and their solutions only get more creative once the gang is back together, even dipping into theoretical science and thought experiments as the basis of his mind-bending stories.
    Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 28 July 2025
Adjective
  • Human rights, utopias, interracial love, ambition, war and betrayal are the ingredients of this film crafted with archival images and an imaginary diary shot on 16mm film that expresses all the modernity of Cabral’s vision of the world.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Another transforms her into the enigmatic hostess of an imaginary cabaret, a nod to her Broadway performance in 2014.
    Elizabeth Grace Coyne, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 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
  • McDonald’s is celebrating the revitalization of the mythical world with an all-new McDonaldland Meal, available starting August 12.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Penned by renowned sommelier Enrico Bernardo, Wine & Travel Mediterranean Islands traverses the region’s mythical places where wine, culture and nature meet.
    Kissa Castaneda, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025

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“Undocumented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undocumented. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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