unofficial

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Recent Examples of unofficial However, with his Major League team playing at Las Vegas Ballpark this week as an unofficial introduction to their future hometown, Kotsay likely wasn’t expecting the offensive explosion that was to come. Sean Campbell june 9, Sacbee.com, 9 June 2026 Actor Ben Stiller, who has become something of the Knicks’ unofficial documentarian throughout this playoff run, arrived hours before tipoff. Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 8 June 2026 It was developed as an unofficial, out-of-hours, rule-breaking project by Auto Union’s engineers in the late 1960s. Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 8 June 2026 Nowhere was this clearer than in the unofficial South African Pavilion presenting Gabrielle Goliath’s Elegy. Thomas Rom, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for unofficial
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Adjective
  • Sawyer got a tip about an exploit in Vision Media’s network that was being used to gain unauthorized access.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
  • These safeguards can prevent unauthorized logins to your account.
    Rebecca Safier, USA Today, 4 June 2026
Adjective
  • The largely informal opposition had consisted mainly of local cities that warned another sales tax would disproportionately burden the poorest residents and force shoppers across the county border in hopes of finding lower costs.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
  • An informal settlement is a residential area where housing units have been constructed without official rights to the land.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026

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“Unofficial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unofficial. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.

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