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unsourced

British  
/ ʌnˈsɔːst /

adjective

  1. (of a story or quotation) not attributed to a source

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Many of the posts were based on an unsourced, and since-deleted, online report from November that claimed Hardaway had been hospitalized with COVID-19.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2023

An Israeli military spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the unsourced Yedioth report.

From Reuters • Jun. 26, 2022

“In terms of media reports that are speculative and unsourced, we don’t spend any of our time reacting to that type of information in terms of how we make decisions here,” Pelinka said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2022

An unsourced claim in SCOTUSblog speculated that one potential candidate, Leondra Kruger, is “in the view of some — even more dynamic and intellectually stronger” than another potential candidate, Ketanji Brown Jackson.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2022

"If we just come straight out with 'Wiley is CIA,' I think we will be derided as conspiracy theorists making wild unsourced allegations," he wrote.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2021