unsanctioned

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Unsanctioned congregations, some with hundreds of members, operate outside of the official state-run churches.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Unsanctioned events, the statement said, aren’t reflective of CES “or the tech industry at large.”

From Washington Times • Jan. 11, 2018

Unsanctioned by the league, the Hawks went to Toronto, where loudspeakers blared “Yankee Doodle” as “the cash customers prepared for a comedy,” one correspondent reported.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2017

"Unsanctioned, ungoverned, unimpeachable; my mind was, in the company of these books, my own," he wrote.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2014

Unsanctioned by the will of the people, this act could not annul the solemn contract, that was established between them and the Emperor.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron