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Recent Examples of unsanctioned
The Death Riders get the last laugh Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi, Darby Allin, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Will Ospreay may have won the unsanctioned Lights Out Steel Cage Match against The Death Riders, Gabe Kidd and Matt and Nick Jackson.
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Even porous sanctions, which shave growth rates by a percentage point or two, can produce devastating, long-term compounding effects—as a comparison of sanctioned North Korea and unsanctioned South Korea illustrates.
—S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
While Wednesday is on this unsanctioned field trip, Morticia and Thing have a falling out of their own.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
The irony of the shift from fining parents for unsanctioned births to subsidizing them to have more children is not lost on China’s millennials and Gen Zs – especially those who have witnessed the harsh penalties of the one-child policy firsthand.
—Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Even porous sanctions, which shave growth rates by a percentage point or two, can produce devastating, long-term compounding effects—as a comparison of sanctioned North Korea and unsanctioned South Korea illustrates.
—S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
While Wednesday is on this unsanctioned field trip, Morticia and Thing have a falling out of their own.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
The irony of the shift from fining parents for unsanctioned births to subsidizing them to have more children is not lost on China’s millennials and Gen Zs – especially those who have witnessed the harsh penalties of the one-child policy firsthand.
—Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsanctioned
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So that seemingly innocent Machu Picchu stamp—one of the most popular souvenir stamps around—could be viewed not as a harmless keepsake but as an unauthorized alteration that might jeopardize your ability to travel.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
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Victims may only notice unauthorized transactions after substantial amounts have been taken from their accounts as scammers frequently conduct small, less noticeable withdrawals to evade fraud detection systems.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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Two containers of labne had been obtained from an unapproved source.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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The law enforcement technology market, and surveillance cameras in particular, are by their nature controversial, with concerns about privacy, racial profiling, use of surveillance information for unapproved purposes, and weak security protocols.—
Eric Rosenbaum,
CNBC,
16 Oct. 2025
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An unknown number of unlicensed rehabilitation clinics in Colombia and elsewhere in Latin America offer such therapy based on the idea that homosexuality, bisexuality and transgender identities are a mental illness that needs to be cured, rights groups said.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
14 Oct. 2025
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Its living room rapidly reached the swelter and volume of a blacksmith’s forge operating as a front for an unlicensed tavern.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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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
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Inevitably, a few students were surreptitiously checking smuggled screens that day.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Unsanctioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsanctioned. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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