unrelated

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Recent Examples of unrelated Lopez denies the claims against him and has said his efforts to help her business were unrelated to their insurance dispute. Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025 Rubella, sometimes called German measles, is unrelated to measles but is also characterized by a rash. Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025 Such as when the police are conducting a search warrant for an unrelated matter and encounter an unsecured firearm. Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025 Five people were killed on one Sunday in January in four unrelated shootings. Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unrelated
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Adjective
  • Prospects for unconnected Nepalis, in the meantime, got worse.
    Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • But the databases were unconnected.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • These two dwarf galaxies orbit the Milky Way at distances of 163,000 and 200,000 light-years, respectively, moving through our galaxy's outer halo of hot gas not too dissimilar, but on a much smaller scale, from the Virgo Cluster's halo of hot gas.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The show will be staged inside a house that’s meant to replicates an old village house, one not so dissimilar to Marie Antoinette’s countryside retreat, Hameau de la Reine, on the grounds of Versailles.
    Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And while there is a minor character, unassociated with any actual F1 race team, who emerges as a foil to Hayes, Bruckheimer made clear that the story centers on the tension between two drivers, the aging Hayes and the up-and-comer Pearce, on the same fictional team.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 13 June 2025
  • City officials became aware of the fraud on March 13 after a second payment approved for a city vendor was diverted to an unassociated bank account.
    Danny Tow, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Vachon even posed the question of whether working with major brands is all that different from banking on cash rebates that stipulate certain creative conditions, such as having heads of department who come from the countries providing the relief.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Each course is dispatched from a different stall downstairs.
    Clarissa Wei, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The beams of this sturdy plot structure support the freewheeling improv performances that take place within, allowing for a final seamless narrative where all the disparate subplots converge.
    THR Staff, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
  • And with the Brotherhood of Sorcerers now splintered after the Thanedd coup, the disparate mages are looking for leadership.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But at the moment, unlike, say, when the Heat looked ahead to the formation of the Big Three in the 2010 offseason, this is not a case of a 2026 masterplan.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 July 2025
  • And then—unlike, say, the stories once told by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth—at least the e-mails published by WikiLeaks were real.
    Keith Gessen, New Yorker, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • In addition to this expert insight, the company offers CMAs backed by fresh data — unlike other platforms that often rely on stale information.
    Mary Beth Eastman, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Several other Allies – including Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Romania – have also recently experienced airspace violations by Russia.
    Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Old Nazi warheads and US warships have been reclaimed by a new army of diverse marine life, as scientists uncover how nature has made use of the munitions and fleets that ended up dumped in waterways during the two world conflicts.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Film and content studio Wavelength has hired Jessica Wolfson as new executive director of the Wave Grant, a program designed to support emerging filmmakers from diverse backgrounds and perspectives to tell their stories.
    Giana Levy, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Unrelated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrelated. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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