unrecognized

unrecognised

/ (ʌnˈrɛkəɡˌnaɪzd) /

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adjective

not recognized or identifiedhitherto unrecognized planets

not given formal acknowledgment of legal statusthe unrecognized Communist Workers' Party

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unreasonable, unreasonable behaviour, unreasoning, unreckonable, unrecognizable, unrecognized, unreconstructed, unreconstructible, unrecorded, unredacted, unreel

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How to use unrecognized in a sentence

Surely it was intentional and perpetrated by Assad or ISIS or a still-unrecognized radical group.
Measles Vaccine Mix-Up Kills Dozens of Syrian Children|Kent Sepkowitz|September 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sykes suspects that the hairs come from either an unrecognized bear species, or an unknown hybrid of polar bear and brown bear.
Sorry Bigfoot Truthers: Yetis Aren’t Real|Elizabeth Picciuto|July 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Another crucial difference is that the Veneto vote is non-binding, because it is unrecognized by the central government in Rome.
Putin TV Wants You to Think Italy Is a Bigger Story Than Crimea|James Kirchick|March 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Not so many sing about the cruel—but all too common—fate of being buried unrecognized, unheralded, and in an unmarked grave.
Blues Musicians in Unmarked Graves Are Finally Getting Some Respect|Malcolm Jones|January 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The Prawer-Begin bill implies that the Bedouins in these unrecognized villages are squatters.
Jewish Groups, American Rabbis Call on Israel to Withdraw Bedouin Displacement Plan|Mira Sucharov|November 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Kent, still unrecognized by Lear, endeavors to persuade him to take refuge in a hovel.
Tolstoy on Shakespeare|Leo Tolstoy
Accompanied by but one attendant he left Novara, and passed unrecognized through the enemy's lines.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year|Edwin Emerson
This man has come and gone for months in Sevenoaks, among the neighbors of the real Paul Benedict, unrecognized.
Sevenoaks|J. G. Holland
Then, being dissatisfied, he went to the unrecognized teachers, the enthusiasts and the "cranks" of a hundred schools.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society|Upton Sinclair
No personal or professional craft lurked unrecognized behind his conclusions to give them a bias.
The Education of American Girls|Anna Callender Brackett

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