as in unreasonable
having no basis in reason or fact
an unsupported claim that the structure was built by Vikings
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Recent Examples of unsupported
The trade pact is also a one-off, unsupported by any institutional infrastructure.
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Jennifer Kavanagh, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
Garmire has been setting FKTs for more than a decade, with career highlights including unsupported or self-supported records on the John Muir Trail in California, Vermont’s Long Trail, the Colorado Trail, the Wonderland Trail in Washington, and the Arizona Trail.
—Outside, 26 Sep. 2025
The Indiana district is now using the unsupported hardware, too.
—Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
Doctors told Politico that the changes are unsupported by evidence.
—semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2025
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Jennifer Kavanagh, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
Garmire has been setting FKTs for more than a decade, with career highlights including unsupported or self-supported records on the John Muir Trail in California, Vermont’s Long Trail, the Colorado Trail, the Wonderland Trail in Washington, and the Arizona Trail.
—Outside, 26 Sep. 2025
The Indiana district is now using the unsupported hardware, too.
—Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
Doctors told Politico that the changes are unsupported by evidence.
—semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsupported
Adjective
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Many of our technologies are built on the not-unreasonable assumption that openness is good, and that more common knowledge is better.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2025
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Each side of the issue argues that the other is unreasonable and operating in bad faith.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Musk himself has been known to repost unsubstantiated claims, boosting them to his hundreds of millions of followers.—
Hadas Gold,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
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Russia’s unsubstantiated claims that NATO is plotting armed provocations against Transnistria could be a pretext for Moscow’s meddling in Moldova, raising concerns about further military aggression in the region.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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China continues to dismiss the decision as invalid.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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If any court of law, having the jurisdiction to decide on this matter, rules that any provision of these Official Rules is invalid or unenforceable, then that provision will be removed from the Official Rules without affecting the rest of the Terms.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Unsupported.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsupported. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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