How to Use unconfirmed in a Sentence

unconfirmed

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  • It’s unconfirmed at this time if Malia will direct the project.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
  • As of Wednesday, the app showed that there have been 11 sightings — both confirmed and unconfirmed — over the course of the past week.
    Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 30 June 2022
  • The lead-up to the shooting is largely unknown and unconfirmed.
    Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 17 Oct. 2022
  • But the unconfirmed news is already causing quite a stir.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 3 July 2023
  • To them, some facts will always be best left unconfirmed.
    New York Times, 7 May 2022
  • Though as yet unconfirmed, the child seems to have drowned, according to police.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The discovery of the barn owl family in a nest was the first in 22 years despite an uptick in unconfirmed sightings in the southern part of the state.
    Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The second season will air on Netflix for an unconfirmed date which may be in 2023.
    Brooke Lamantia, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Ethan Hawke is rumored to be playing the show's main villain, though his part is unconfirmed.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2022
  • An unconfirmed video said to capture the attack shows a drone flying past the dome of the Senate Palace before blowing up.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Late Monday, police tweeted that a body had been found but that the identity of that person and the cause of death was unconfirmed.
    CBS News, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Before his book was released last month, that gold Trans Am was the unconfirmed stuff of Texas football legend.
    Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Feb. 2022
  • But the reports are still unconfirmed, and in some cases have been retracted.
    Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Back in May there was an unconfirmed report of a gator killing a golden retriever.
    Ike Morgan | Imorgan@al.com, al, 14 July 2023
  • The app publicly tracks both confirmed and unconfirmed shark sightings.
    Fox News, 2 July 2022
  • According to unconfirmed reports from Ukraine, a TB-2 Bayraktar drone tracked the ship down.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2022
  • While the release date, tracklist, and even how many songs might be on it are completely unconfirmed, here’s what she’s said to us and publicly.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 11 Dec. 2023
  • There have also been unconfirmed rumors that Dua Lipa may have a role.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 5 July 2022
  • The other night, Margaret [Josephs] brought up unconfirmed rumors about Louie's past...
    Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Effectiveness was sort of unconfirmed, but appeared to be good as close to 80%.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 24 May 2022
  • There were unconfirmed reports in Polish media of the death of an Iraqi teen on the Belarusian side a day earlier.
    Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2021
  • There are even some unconfirmed reports that both Saskia and Shauna have legally changed their names.
    Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The skirt appears to be a version of Jean Paul Gaultier’s illusion denim pants skirt, but this is unconfirmed.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 23 June 2022
  • The second season is expected on an unconfirmed date in 2024.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The evidence of such effects, though, is unconfirmed and untested.
    Byquinn Owen, ABC News, 13 May 2022
  • Precisely how much Netflix paid, last year, to acquire the Roald Dahl estate is unconfirmed.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Previously, an unconfirmed report by the Verge said Musk planned to hike the price of Twitter Blue to $20/month and that the plan would include verified status.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Over the years, multiple unconfirmed sightings of the Tasmanian tiger have popped up.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The exact nature of the complaints against Murray remain unconfirmed.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 30 Apr. 2022
  • But this week, unconfirmed reports claimed that the spin-off would center around Eleven, who Millie Bobby Brown has portrayed over the series’ five-season run.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 3 Feb. 2023

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