undocumented

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Recent Examples of undocumented In an April commentary published by the Union-Tribune, Jones argued that California’s sanctuary laws were actually harming law-abiding undocumented residents. Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2025 Critics of e-bike enforcement argue that minorities and undocumented immigrants will be most affected. Steve Cohen, New York Daily News, 13 July 2025 In New York, where waves of undocumented immigrants and asylum-seekers arriving by bus from Texas have ignited national debate, sudden shifts – in public policy or daily routine – can be devastating. Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 13 July 2025 Her father was American, and her mother was an undocumented Mexican immigrant. Geraldo Cadava, New Yorker, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for undocumented
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undocumented
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, civil society groups, ranging from the Electronic Frontier Foundation to the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, argue that those harms are not hypothetical, but are here now.
    Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • The challenge here was to think about a hypothetical world unique and singular to the world of the film – neither past, present nor future.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • While estimates for the amount of guidance in existence or birthed yearly may not be as speculative as extrasolar planetary life, the magnitude remains bathed in the radiation of indifference.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Butch Dill/Getty Images While the report is purely speculative at this point, Saban unretiring to get back into coaching wouldn't be a complete shock.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • An apocryphal story has George Washington breakfasting with Thomas Jefferson and referring to the Senate as a saucer intended to cool the passions of the intemperate lower chamber.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
  • And there were apocryphal stories of women living in dread of their menfolk coming back if their team had lost.
    Stuart James, New York Times, 7 June 2025
Adjective
  • Final Approach The consequences are no longer theoretical.
    Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
  • For the first time in decades, the question of succession is no longer theoretical.
    Pegah Banihashemi, Twin Cities, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • The Royal Observatory Greenwich is home to Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian, an imaginary line of longitude, designated as 0 degrees that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • The soundtrack shifts toward lighter indie rock and away from brain-numbing redundancies, while the story treats those imaginary genre sketches like an accidental off-ramp left in the rearview.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • Inaccurate debunks Amid the recycled imagery, authentic pictures of National Guard members sleeping on the floor of a federal building in Los Angeles this week were falsely described as old or unauthentic.
    Emma Li, CBS News, 11 June 2025
  • Both games made changes to the core formula that longtime players didn't appreciate, such as an influx of unauthentic skins and a departure from the class system.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Projections of economic gains from major sporting events are typically optimistic, euphoric, chimerical or conjectural.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
  • In spite of everything, the setting continues to compel me, as does the puzzle of Flores’s fiction, which frames the South Texas border region as a territory both physical and chimerical.
    David L. Ulin, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Its mythical story left an indelible mark on my mind.
    Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Opened in 2020, the museum features interactive exhibits dedicated to the mythical sea creature.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 13 July 2025

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“Undocumented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undocumented. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.

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