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Recent Examples of unrelated But the photo in the social media posts is unrelated to Trump’s re-election and predates it by two years. Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024 The two shootings at Sunday's second-line were unrelated, NOPD says. Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024 Officials believe the four overdoses are unrelated. Brennan Stewart, Baltimore Sun, 19 Nov. 2024 Helton said the man is in jail on an unrelated charge, KOB reported. Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for unrelated 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrelated
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  • In Visconti’s world, these things are not unconnected.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2024
  • In fact, this appears to be a movie entirely unconnected from any reality yet discovered.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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  • The initial reactions out of the film’s Cannes premiere were a bit hostile (which is typical of a festival that caters to hyperbolic responses, both positive and negative), but for the man’s fans, Elvis isn’t that dissimilar from his go-for-broke portrayal(s) in Cloud Atlas.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
  • With SpaceX having launched 13 successful crewed missions since 2020—nine for NASA and four for private customers—the space agency may well decide that dissimilar redundancy is just not achievable, at least not with Starliner as one of the two ships.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 9 Sep. 2024
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  • Denver Police said the shooting in the 2000 Block of Market Street — which is believed to be unassociated with the Nuggets celebrations — resulted in 10 total victims.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 13 June 2023
  • But the stone was so ancient, there was no way to really tell who was buried in the section of single graves unassociated with larger, family plots.
    Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
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  • Traffic camera footage showed another man, possibly the truck's seller, chasing after another man who fled in a slightly different direction.
    Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
  • When bedding together, does bed down facing different directions.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2024
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  • In 1949, the company rolled out a new venture to systematize the disparate European operations, creating units in different countries that were wholly owned by a new entity known as the Word Trade Corporation.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 21 Nov. 2024
  • At the same time, however, Trump also practices a transactional view of foreign policy, demonstrating a willingness during his first term to link disparate issues to secure economic concessions.
    Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
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  • But, as Glucksmann pointed out, nothing could be more normal: fishing for votes for particular projects and forming improbable coalitions among unlike kinds are how parliamentary politics work in Spain, Germany, and the European Parliament itself.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
  • Being effective may well require a prospective tutor to get a refresher on how to add fractions with unlike denominators or multiply decimals, but a bachelor’s degree, while nice, shouldn’t be a prerequisite.
    Michael Thomas Duffy, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2024
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  • The United States has been effective thus far in deterring China from invading Taiwan but has not prevented China from undertaking other provocative actions in the South China Sea.
    Carrie A. Lee, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Furniture, appliances, and other household items can also be donated to Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore program.
    Whizy Kim, Vox, 19 Nov. 2024
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  • The Old Louisville Holiday Home Tour WHAT: The Old Louisville Holiday Home Tour highlights the rich and diverse history of historic Old Louisville during the holidays.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2024
  • In the studio, Chong told Kane to let his imagination roam free and later asked his merchandisers and buyers to build a diverse range based on the designer’s creations.
    Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 21 Nov. 2024

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“Unrelated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrelated. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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