undocumented

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Recent Examples of undocumented The appellate court had held that the INS could not rely on these immigration sweeps but, rather, needed to articulate objective facts and rational inferences to support a reasonable suspicion that each person detained is undocumented. Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 This means candidates in 2026 will need to consider the wide support for many facets of immigration policy, such as a pathway to citizenship for undocumented residents. Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025 Dugan is accused of trying to help an undocumented immigrant escape federal agents outside her courtroom. Daniel Bice, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Not just for undocumented immigrants, but also for the people who already call this great city home. Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for undocumented
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undocumented
Adjective
  • Based on the state’s 2019 study, the county would likely have valued this hypothetical home around 92% of its market value.
    Madeline King, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
  • And that fear isn’t hypothetical.
    David Rodriguez Muñoz, Freep.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Bigelow’s work is procedural to its core, and that this film is a speculative what-if is made all the more horrifying because of its banality.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
  • It’s meant to be bought, enjoyed, and drunk—not treated like a speculative financial asset.
    Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The apocryphal anecdote endures as a cautionary tale of media’s power to shape reality to its owners’ interests.
    Emil Steiner, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The song uses John Lee Hooker’s track of the same name, about a devastating flood in Tupelo, as a jumping off point for an apocryphal tale about Elvis Presley’s birth in the same Mississippi city.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • This novel scenario, of flash ionization in the early Universe, may turn out to be, like most new theoretical ideas, a red herring that only takes us to a possible world that never was.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The key is making the financial management real rather than theoretical.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Steve Young lifts his arm, holding an imaginary football, preparing to throw.
    Seth Wickersham, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Moreover, her five-letter titles refer to satellite navigation waypoints and fixes for aircraft flying in clouds or at night, that offer passage to imaginary locations defined by the interception of magnetic vectors drawn from the earth’s poles.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 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
  • Over at Metropolitan State University, the on-campus gallery is presenting works from five Twin Cities Latino artists working across paintings, puppetry, photography and more focused on bestiarios, or fantastical, mythical beasts.
    Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Renewal Through Setback Erik Marthon Olsen of Laerdal Invest chose the phoenix, the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes.
    Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Undocumented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undocumented. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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