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It refers to a short, authorless document posted online rather than in a scientific journal where it would have been vetted for accuracy.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2023

Glazer said he and his filmmaking team, using up to 10 cameras at once, tried “to make ourselves as absent as possible, almost as authorless as possible.”

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2023

Markets may be human facsimiles of natural systems, and like the universe itself, they may be authorless and valueless.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2017

His peers held him in such high regard, they launched what was billed as an authorless book tour for his last work, “The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2017

Scheherazade is one of the great authorless figures.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2015