Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not supported; not upheld; not sustained; not maintained; not countenanced; not aided.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without physical
support . - adjective For which
support or help is not available. - adjective Without confirmation from a credible source, without verifying
support
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not sustained or maintained by nonmaterial aid
- adjective not held up or borne
Etymologies
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Examples
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Pentagon auditors have uncovered more than $10 billion in what they call unsupported or questionable military costs.
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Pentagon auditors have uncovered more than $10 billion in what they call unsupported or questionable military costs.
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Of course she fell after a few seconds, but going from lying on your stomach to standing on ice unsupported is a big deal.
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They show how each uses ill-defined global concepts (such as "mean temperature"), confuse infrared radiation with heat (they're different), incorrectly describe the physics inside a glass greenhouse, and use other terms unsupported by the laws of physics.
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They show how each uses ill-defined global concepts (such as "mean temperature"), confuse infrared radiation with heat (they're different), incorrectly describe the physics inside a glass greenhouse, and use other terms unsupported by the laws of physics.
Latest Articles 2009
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They couldn’t exist in unsupported world structures, not without the proper meme-patterns threaded throughout the reality’s chronatin makeup.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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With flight times to Mars in the region of 150 days (and total mission durations in the region of 900 days, IIRC), we need to practice closed-loop long-term unsupported life support in exo-geo-magnetosphere conditions.
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Of the unsupported myths -- unsupported, that is, by even a shadow of probability -- there is no end.
A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914
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Marable accuses police of failing to investigate the threats on Malcolm X's life and of "almost waiting for a crime to happen," something police officials have called an unsupported conspiracy theory.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com 2011
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Although Taylor's creation of the Grants Administration Department provides for independent review going forward, the City still had to pay back the $1.5 million in CDBG spending that HUD identified as unsupported or ineligible.
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