Example Sentences

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The line is such common wisdom that even its originator was paraphrasing it from some uncited source.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2021

Ford and Fry replied that I was threatening them with “the unsubstantiated beliefs of uncited individuals … if we do not respond to your satisfaction on Mike’s commercial affairs.”

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2019

For Peck, Baldwin hasn’t been so much out of fashion, as a constant uncited influence on writers.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2017

Some quoted material in the poems goes uncited, while some is documented excessively.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2016

Knox mentions the fact, which is also recorded in letters from the English ambassador, uncited by Mr. Child. 

From A Collection of Ballads by Lang, Andrew