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It means not attributed or credited to a specific source or person. It is often used in reference to a quotation, idea, or artwork that does not have a known origin. Example: The author used several unattributed quotes in his book, leaving readers to wonder if they were his own words or borrowed from someone else.
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unattributed
adjective
Lacking attribution; of unknown authorship
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"Pro-government forces" – including Afghan army and police, and international troops – were blamed for 9 per cent of the casualties, while 12 per cent were unattributed and resulted from ground engagements between pro-government forces and "anti-government elements".
Another story, which Wilson leaves unattributed, describes Herman Mankiewicz "resigning, going to Schulberg or whoever it was and saying, I hate Jews, you're a lot of dirty kikes!
My trash poem wasn't even the only one: Peach's volume features several such rhymes, including the Park Poet's (which appears, naturally, unattributed).
When the Times informed Montana Senator John Walsh last week that one of his graduate-school papers contained unattributed passages by other writers, Walsh tried out three responses.
Last year, an assistant professor of English at Brown University lost her tenure-track job after she was found to have included unattributed passages in her book; undergraduates could flunk a course, or worse.
The lines were unattributed, and, like the recipient of a note from a secret admirer, I yearned to discover the writer's identity.
(The house style for the Talk of the Town section at that time was first person plural, with authorship unattributed).
Too many quotes and facts were unattributed, and the biography was widely condemned as gratuitously sensational.
Only one quotation is unattributed.
(The "Theme" costumes are by Jens-Jacob Worsaae; the scenery is unattributed).
"He'd tell me anything, anything, as long as the information went unattributed, as long as no one knew he and I had any real relationship.
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