unlicensed

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Recent Examples of unlicensed Kormarczyk was indicted on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit unlicensed money transmitting, while Carbajal was indicted for conspiracy to commit unlicensed money transmitting. Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025 Within less than a year, the Sheriff’s Office had issued corrective action notices to NaphCare for failing to pay outside hospitals and medical specialists, using unlicensed staff and ignoring requests to replace broken medical equipment, among other deficiencies. Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025 The bar was also the site of a shootout involving unlicensed security that sent someone to the hospital. Quinlan Bentley, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2025 Bautista’s wife operated an unlicensed childcare facility in their East Palo Alto home, prosecutors said. Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unlicensed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unlicensed
Adjective
  • As previously reported by PEOPLE, Rajpaul died after undergoing an unauthorized butt-implant procedure performed by Adame and Galaz, authorities said.
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Start by checking your login history to see if there are any unauthorized sign-ins on your email or work accounts.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • What’s more, 57% of regular employees using unapproved AI tools had approval from their managers.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Turkey sandwiches, cheesecakes and other foods inside the back two-door upright refrigerator were from unapproved vendors.
    Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • During his sojourn in Philadelphia, Ali constantly challenged Frazier to unsanctioned fights.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • If that data moves through unsanctioned channels or lands in public models, it’s exposed.
    Mark Doble, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Shkreli, for one, was reportedly running his pharmaceutical company from behind bars using a contraband smartphone, according to the Wall Street Journal.
    Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • According to his report, nearly half of the 26 employees charged were for drug and contraband related crimes, including bringing marijuana, meth and fentanyl into the facility.
    Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Laboratory tests of smuggled samples taken from late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny show that he was poisoned when he was imprisoned in a Siberian penal colony, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has said.
    Anna Chernova, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Inevitably, a few students were surreptitiously checking smuggled screens that day.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Unlicensed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlicensed. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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