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Recent Examples of unsanctioned
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.
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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
But investigators learned Ma was able to get access to him by setting up an unsanctioned after-school program and talking with him through a school chat application.
—Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2025
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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
But investigators learned Ma was able to get access to him by setting up an unsanctioned after-school program and talking with him through a school chat application.
—Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsanctioned
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In addition, reported unauthorized border crossing attempts have plummeted.—
Phillip Reese,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
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Munich airport was shut down this morning due to unauthorized drones in its airspace, and Putin joked about it in Sochi.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
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The instinct to simply ban unapproved AI may backfire, driving usage further underground.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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But the search continues, and despite all those pitfalls, hospitals and physicians are using unapproved tests that are available to screen patients, often at exorbitant costs.—
Cory Franklin,
Twin Cities,
14 Sep. 2025
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Within less than a year, the Sheriff’s Office had issued corrective action notices to NaphCare for failing to pay outside hospitals and medical specialists, using unlicensed staff and ignoring requests to replace broken medical equipment, among other deficiencies.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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The bar was also the site of a shootout involving unlicensed security that sent someone to the hospital.—
Quinlan Bentley,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
28 Sep. 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 9 Oct. 2025.
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