Example Sentences

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It’s frustrating to watch a show that features the word “real” in the title become so manufactured and unauthentic.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025

Detractors may favor the similar treatment done recently at Trump Links Ferry Point in the Bronx, because Dick indulged in unauthentic features like a bunker in the shape of an anchor.

From Golf Digest • Jan. 9, 2018

“If you look at Katy Perry’s music, she’s auto-tuned and about as unauthentic as its possible to be,” Kramer said.

From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2015

After the tournament ended, Kasparov spent six hours at an awards ceremony held in the convention center on Macau’s thoroughly unauthentic Fisherman’s Wharf.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2014

The South, however, has been "interpreted" so often, either with condescending pity or nauseous sentimentality, that it is the aim of this book to speak simply and carefully amid a babel of unauthentic utterance.

From Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country by Heyward, DuBose