How to Use unauthorized in a Sentence

unauthorized

adjective
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  • That means customers could have had an unauthorized account open for over a decade.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 14 July 2023
  • The unauthorized opening of accounts was the root of the Wells Fargo scandal in previous years.
    — Ken Tumin, CBS News, 25 July 2023
  • Theft of resources: This refers to the unauthorized use of computing resources.
    — Dan Branco, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Disney threatened to sue for unauthorized use of a Disney princess.
    — Nathan Smith, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
  • For one, what does the United States owe its unauthorized immigrants?
    — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Herman states Hollis had an open warrant out for his arrest for the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle at the time of the chase.
    — Dan Carson, Chron, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The letter was unauthorized, and in no way speaks for our institution.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
  • The state denied the request and instead fined North Wildwood for unauthorized beach repairs.
    — Michael Casey, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The unauthorized tell-all has a long and (sometimes in)distinguished history, but there can’t have been many like this scathing look inside the culture at the world’s biggest hedge fund.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2023
  • This will reduce the chances of your data being accessed by unauthorized parties in the future.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • In both Lenhoff’s and Dabney’s cases, no unauthorized drones were allowed to fly within that zone from one hour before to one hour after the games.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The jury found Anyadike and Carey to be liable for invasion of privacy and unauthorized use of name or likeness.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The unauthorized helicopter landing is attracting attention; video of the flight shows a fight breaking out on the ground as the chopper lifts off.
    — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The state and cities across California have been cracking down on unauthorized homeless camps.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Chris Sims, a comic book author and Batman expert, expects a flood of unauthorized Batman comics to hit the stands as soon as the copyright expires.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
  • When hidden in apps, it can be used to gain unauthorized access to information on a user’s phone.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 21 Mar. 2023
  • This tool would be the first to allow content owners to push back in a meaningful way against unauthorized model training.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2023
  • As a result, the building was no longer secure against unauthorized access and safeguarded from the public.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The filing identifies one count of unauthorized use of the deputies' likeness and three counts of invading their privacy.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 28 Mar. 2023
  • People will still resell seats under the table; the more this happens in unauthorized channels, the less protection fans will have against scams.
    — Emma Fox, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • In May, Messi took an unauthorized trip to Saudi Arabia, which was part of a promotional tour with the country's office of tourism.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
  • These issues include embryo farming — producing hundreds of embryos to pick the best one — and the unauthorized use of a person’s cells.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The team showed the video to Ohtani during his free agent visit to Dodger Stadium on Dec. 1, according to sources who have knowledge of the meeting but are unauthorized to discuss it publicly.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • How the new law works Tenants must disclose their unauthorized roommates to their landlords within a month to be protected, essentially letting the cat out of the bag.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The Texas Rangers were seen as the strongest other contender to sign him, according to one person with knowledge of the situation who was unauthorized to speak publicly.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Eminem has snapped one politician back to reality after the unauthorized use of his music.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The incident at Wildrose Canyon, however, involved the unauthorized discharge of a firearm that posed a threat to public safety, Andler said.
    — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2023
  • You’ll be alerted if any of these features are not working properly, as well as if the battery is low, the door is open, or if there were any attempts to tamper with the safe, like unauthorized fingerprints.
    — Jack Byram, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2023
  • There are two scenarios that could’ve caused payment data to be shown to an unauthorized user, according to OpenAI.
    — Mitchell Clark, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Dozens of public school educators in Oakland, Calif. are planning to present pro-Palestinian lessons on Wednesday as part of an unauthorized teach-in.
    — Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023

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