How to Use unfounded in a Sentence

unfounded

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  • The sponsors of the bill said those claims are unfounded.
    — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The district told The Times that these claims are unfounded.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Reports that a train station in the city was among the targets were unfounded.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Kennedy spoke at length about the unfounded claims that vaccines and gluten could cause or worsen autism.
    — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 24 June 2024
  • The fans' worries have proved to be unfounded and there is no suggestion this will happen to The Acolyte.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Talk of a place in the first 12-team College Football Playoff isn’t unfounded.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024
  • Since then, however, fears that the war would cut off all exports through the Black Sea have proved unfounded.
    — David J. Lynch, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
  • And perhaps Heather should have apologized to Lisa for a nasty attack that turned out to be unfounded.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 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
  • Though her concerns are completely unfounded, give his mother the time and space to come around.
    — Annie Lane, cleveland, 16 Sep. 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
  • Taylor Greene hasn’t been the only one who’s been pushing such unfounded claims.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • Whether they are aimed at Noem herself, or the decision to shoehorn this bit in two weeks later, the boos are not unfounded.
    — Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 19 May 2024
  • The show has resumed at the @lvrsnfrndsfest after a report of gunfire heard near the festival was deemed unfounded.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2022
  • The file noted that the allegations by the couple against Grayson were deemed unfounded.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
  • Their fears were not unfounded: What structure could match the matchless Golden Gate?
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Joy felt these performances were meant in part to spite her, to prove that her complaints about his new demeanor were unfounded.
    — Scott Sayare Robert Petkoff Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 14 June 2024
  • Fears that a far-right government would reverse Italy’s course on Ukraine have proved unfounded.
    — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Vance has also echoed Trump's unfounded claims about election fraud in 2020.
    — Nik Popli, TIME, 15 July 2024
  • There’s something to be said for that kind of unfounded confidence.
    — Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Fears that the changes would drive some families away appeared to be mostly unfounded.
    — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
  • China, Russia and Iran could deface and take down election websites to feed unfounded concerns that votes are being tampered with.
    — Sam Sabin, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Yet that hasn’t stopped Trump and some of his most high-profile supporters from making unfounded claims that noncitizens are registering and voting in large numbers this year.
    — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2024

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