unrelated

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Recent Examples of unrelated In an ensuing foot pursuit, an officer, who remains unidentified publicly, was hit by a vehicle unrelated to the incident. Austin Turner, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026 The officer was struck by an unrelated vehicle that was traveling on Brookhurst Street. City News Service, Oc Register, 4 Jan. 2026 For example, the Clarkstown Town Board has decreed that there will be no boarding houses, and only two unrelated people can live in the same house, no matter its size. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026 With a limited scope, the tax commission can focus on complicated tax issues without linking them to unrelated matters. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unrelated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrelated
Adjective
  • According to the complaint, executives resisted the Community Integrity Team’s recommendation to adjust the feature’s design to avoid recommending minors to unconnected adults.
    Charlotte Alter, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
  • As other seemingly unconnected incidents start to happen around her (one friend goes missing, another is attacked), conspiracies are everywhere and Chloe must try to separate truth from fiction while fearing for her life.
    Kate Belli, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Davis’s philosophy was not so dissimilar.
    Helena Alonso Paisley, Miami Herald, 4 Nov. 2025
  • This would not be too dissimilar to how Elliott worked under Klopp.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Those claims already stretched the limits of seriousness and legality, targeting splinter groups – at best – and other bad actors completely unassociated with Al Qaeda at worst.
    Alexander Langlois, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • And to get to play these characters that are layered and complex and multidimensional is really fun — anything where there's a public and a private life, and a secret, and different elements at play, and having to keep different balls in the air is really fulfilling and fun.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Each box of pods follows the same format as their whole bean deliveries, single origin from a range of different coffee-producing countries and ready to drop right into a Keurig machine.
    Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • This approach seems to be an emerging theme in organizations, not just in fashion, to bring together normally disparate functions to kickstart innovation efforts.
    Raj Dhiman, Sourcing Journal, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But Gilsdorf and his wife arrived at the Auburn voting center to make sure their often disparate perspectives were heard on Election Day.
    Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • But unlike diamonds, where the molecular structure is extremely compact, Robson’s material contained a huge number of large cavities, suggesting this could lead to the creation of new materials.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • The research team underlined that the future work will explore other co-intercalants and optimize electrolytes for even wider temperature ranges.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
  • That’s a significant contrast to other parts of the Forbidden City, marked by wide open spaces intended to represent the grandeur of imperial power and territory.
    Fred He, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Kiley represents the state’s 3rd Congressional District, a conservative-leaning area that is also the most geographically diverse in the state.
    Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2025
  • And whether your brand resonates with their very diverse customer base.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 6 Nov. 2025

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“Unrelated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrelated. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.

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