Sentence examples for unnamed sources from inspiring English sources

* Various reports, citing unnamed sources" (USA Today).

I've been told it was unnamed sources".

The use of unnamed sources is never ideal.

News reports citing unnamed sources — or no sources — have proliferated.

They cited unnamed sources within the national tax agency.

Tentative confirmations from one set of "unnamed sources" were unconvincingly denied by other "unnamed sources" before, on the purported day of the revelation, nothing happened.

At the weekend, more such grievances were aired by named and unnamed sources.

Soon after arriving there, he produced a front-page exclusive, relying entirely on unnamed sources.

He objected because the article was about an anonymous boy and relied on unnamed sources.

Or is this just bad third-hand reporting of second-hand claims parroted by unnamed sources?

Earlier reports citing unnamed sources had said the assassin was under arrest.