unrelated

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Recent Examples of unrelated United’s problem a few weeks ago stemmed from an issue with the airline’s weight and balance computer system, known as Unimatic, and was unrelated to recent cybersecurity concerns in the industry, the company said. Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025 Ask Questions Beyond The Job Description Ask questions unrelated to the job to learn what the candidate’s hobbies are, their passions, their big ideas and so on. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Deputies visited the same address a day earlier before the shooting for what police said was an unrelated welfare check involving a juvenile. Michael Ruiz , Brooke Taylor , Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2025 The fruit tree likely got its name from early Europeans in North America, who mistook the pawpaw for the unrelated but similar-looking papaya, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation. Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unrelated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrelated
Adjective
  • Unfortunately, when faced by a national downturn, 12 legally unconnected banks had no way to initiate a response.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Someone with fatigue, for example, may actually have a thyroid problem or low iron levels or something else totally unconnected to parasites.
    Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • At best, Son is the best player ever produced by South Korea, a nation whose relatively limited soccer history is not all that dissimilar to the United States.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • To convert the heat to electricity, the RTGs employ a series of thermocouples, which consist of a junction of two dissimilar conductors.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 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
  • The company also showed off the Max10 Ultra, a hybrid robot vacuum that can automatically swap between three different sets of mop heads based on the flooring type.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Plenty of thought clearly also went into creating the right ambience from the moment the team bus pulls up behind the West Stand judging by the different lighting and imagery used to shift the mood as the players pass through the bowels of the arena.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
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  • The district’s disparate parts would be connected largely by two-lane highways cutting through steep slopes of places such as the Modoc National Forest, where nervous drivers must beware of a lack of guardrails.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The league feared the implications of disparate investors with financial but no regional or emotional link to the sport or a team.
    Howard Homonoff, Forbes.com, 3 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
  • Lopez noted and mocked Johnson’s comments, sarcastically asking why the mayor didn’t blame it on other historic phenomena.
    Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Additional locations may experience flooding during periods of heavy rainfall, high winds, or other factors.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • Her 8-year-old son Auron has been studying the diverse plants that grow there and learning to pull up invasive species.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Film Festival with a robust lineup led by female filmmakers, highlighting the nation’s growing influence in international cinema through diverse storytelling approaches.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Unrelated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrelated. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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