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unofficial

adjective as in unauthorized

adjective as in informal

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He had five fights in boxing's unofficial capital as Hatton gave so many Mancunians an excuse to go to Sin City.

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Some employees who were casual fans and had visited Claude started pushing for him to become an unofficial mascot.

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The Argentine peso took another beating last week, with the unofficial rate used to settle financial-asset transactions breaking through the government’s upper band of 1,500 pesos to the dollar.

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He was taken to an unofficial prison facility where other inmates were allegedly beaten and abused and was by himself in a small room when three masked men handed him a single sheet of paper.

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If this year’s Rare Books L.A. had an unofficial theme, it was Dr. Frankenstein’s monster.

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