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  • adjective not identified; having an unknown or unnamed identity.

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  • adjective not yet identified
  • adjective being or having an unknown or unnamed source

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Examples

  • Syria's official news agency, SANA, said nothing about the Homs fighting but said a gas pipeline in the area was blown up by what it called an unidentified terrorist group.

    NYT > Home Page By KAREEM FAHIM 2012

  • Syria's official news agency, SANA, said nothing about the Homs fighting but said a gas pipeline in the area was blown up by what it called an unidentified terrorist group.

    NYT > Home Page By KAREEM FAHIM 2012

  • Consider this: half of the 80,000 genes inventoried from the Costa Rican termites remain unidentified, and each of those 40,000, Warnecke imagines, could require a Ph.D. thesis to figure out.

    Gut Reactions 2008

  • Consider this: half of the 80,000 genes inventoried from the Costa Rican termites remain unidentified, and each of those 40,000, Warnecke imagines, could require a Ph.D. thesis to figure out.

    Gut Reactions 2008

  • These ID opponents, who remain unidentified, complained to Dean Ben Kelley of the School of Engineering and Computer Science, who promptly pulled the plug on Marks 'lab and took down the accompanying website.

    2007 August - Telic Thoughts 2007

  • Late Friday, three people close to the investigation, each asking to remain unidentified because of grand jury secrecy, identified Rove as Official A.

    10/28/2005 2005

  • Malek said someone on his staff -- again unidentified -- had asked the FBI to investigate Schorr but the message somehow got bungled.

    The President and the Press 1973

  • Malek said someone on his staff -- again unidentified -- had asked the FBI to investigate Schorr but the message somehow got bungled.

    The President and the Press 1973

  • Information Act, looking for details that link them to those unidentified from the Pearl

    Remains Returned List WWII 1954

  • Information Act, looking for details that link them to those unidentified from the Pearl

    Remains Returned List WWII 1954

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