undocumented

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Recent Examples of undocumented The suspect, Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino, 43, is an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation told CNN. Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2025 Sharing this information could help immigration enforcement agents find undocumented immigrants faster, and potentially help the Trump Administration achieve its deportation goals. Brittany Gibson, Axios, 8 Apr. 2025 Critics, including immigrant advocacy groups and privacy proponents, argue that the agreement violates longstanding taxpayer confidentiality protections and could deter undocumented immigrants from fulfilling their tax obligations. David Catanese, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2025 As a child of undocumented immigrants, Joshua has always been aware that his family might get deported. Nanki Kaur, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for undocumented
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Adjective
  • Not in some hypothetical future—but right now, in workflows that have long resisted automation.
    Don Muir, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Here's the full hypothetical trade: Yankees receive: RHP Bobby Miller Dodgers receive: OF Everson Pereira, LHP Brock Selvidge The Dodgers are seemingly ready to move on from former top prospect Bobby Miller.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • These tokens illustrate how speculative assets tied to political figures can generate short-term buzz but carry significant downside for everyday buyers.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
  • To date, all changes are speculative in nature and are unlikely to be applied retroactively.
    Cindy McGhee, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • American sportswriter Frank Deford perpetuated the apocryphal story of Leo Seltzer’s invention of roller derby.
    Colleen English, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2025
  • There’s an apocryphal story among J.R.R. Tolkien fans that the fantasy author’s villainous portrayals of spiders were inspired by a childhood incident when a tarantula bit him.
    Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The Dutch theoretical physicist, now a professor emeritus at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has spent much of the past half-century reshaping our understanding of the fundamental forces that knit together reality.
    Lee Billings, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Legacy power grids, water systems and emergency response networks are no longer theoretical.
    Marty Sprinzen, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Emmy Award-winner plays the Black woman stand-in for a white male protagonist in an imaginary story to repurpose the popularity of a once successful Keyworth Pictures’ franchise.
    Malik Peay, Essence, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Perception Of Threat: In situations of aggression, whether real or imaginary, a natural response is to fight back.
    Naira Velumyan, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Its ability to accurately discern and promptly respond to unauthentic negative reviews allows businesses to maintain a legitimate, trustworthy online image.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
Adjective
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, Kilgore, his dream of fame approaching, also sees its chimerical agonies.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • This relic of constitutional law, which the Supreme Court hasn’t taken seriously since its quiet death in the New Deal era, is more mythical than historical—holding, more or less, that Congress cannot delegate its lawmaking power to another branch of government.
    Cristian Farias, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2025
  • This name originates from a Greek myth. Eunice: Another historic Greek name, the mythical Eunice was the sea-nymph daughter of Nereus and Doris.
    Lydia Wang, Parents, 8 Apr. 2025

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“Undocumented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undocumented. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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