How to Use unfounded in a Sentence

unfounded

adjective

• The sponsors of the bill said those claims are unfounded.
  — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 4 Feb. 2024
• Fears of a content drought due to the strikes that shut down the film industry were unfounded.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
• In other words the idea that this is a washout weekend is unfounded.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• The justices agreed that the removal of juror No. 5 was unfounded and had prejudiced the outcome of the case.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• The researchers say that in truth, the idea that money can be enough to make someone happy is unfounded.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2023
• Then, the department learned that there had been a false positive on the test and deemed the case unfounded, according to the records.
  — Hannah Rappleye, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2022
• Hobbs, as the state's election chief, stood up to unfounded claims that Trump had lost the 2020 presidential vote due to widespread fraud.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 15 Nov. 2022
• The sense you were diminished in the eyes of others was and is likely unfounded (though your friend almost surely was).
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• Video of her comments has been shared on social media, pushing the unfounded claim that water seeding was to blame for the storms.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• Moreover, claims that mifepristone threatens the health of those who take it are unfounded.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 16 Apr. 2023
• Fears that a far-right government would reverse Italy’s course on Ukraine have proved unfounded.
  — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 12 Sep. 2023
• Fears that the changes would drive some families away appeared to be mostly unfounded.
  — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• These concerns are hardly unfounded; their bosses don’t even know what to tell them.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
• As history has proven time and again, such worries are far from unfounded.
  — Joe Phelan, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2023
• When George Piro learned that some of his former colleagues were spreading unfounded rumors about him, he was stunned.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• The idea that bosses are needed to supervise every step of the work has been shown to be unfounded, even in highly complex tasks.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• These unfounded ideas are spilling over into the wider society.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 2 July 2023
• The threat turned out to be unfounded but still, the area was shut down for more than an hour as police officers were seen sweeping the area and entering the buildings with guns drawn.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• Serra’s fear about lack of visitors was clearly unfounded if the amount of graffiti scrawled on the metal plates over the years is anything to go by.
  — Barry Neild, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
• But my fears were unfounded; frequent signage made finding our way around easy.
  — Sierra Redmond, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• The fear, unfounded to date, is that the Santa Anita property is just too valuable to remain a racetrack.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• At the time, such a prediction did not seem entirely unfounded.
  — Peter Gattuso, National Review, 17 Nov. 2022
• There is a lot of misinformation and unfounded fears about travel to Africa.
  — Wilson Santiago Burgos, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
• Yet experts say taking fish oil for heart health is a largely unfounded practice.
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 29 Aug. 2023
• Three years later, her worries appear to have been unfounded.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
• Rodgers went on to discourage his fans from making unfounded claims about Kimmel.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2024
• Pena has claimed that his defeat was the result of election fraud, but the allegations are unfounded.
  — Madelyn Urabe, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2023
• In the face of concerns about red dye No. 3’s safety, there are a number of advocates on the opposite side of the aisle who believe that misgivings about the dye are unfounded.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 8 Apr. 2023
• But the administration has stiff-armed those unfounded claims saying the president, the first lady and the first family were away from the White House over the weekend.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
• Ivey said the failure by dozens of those candidates shows Americans were tiring of unfounded claims and extreme rhetoric.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024