unapproved
Example Sentences
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It warned ships not to attempt to transit the key trade waterway via routes unapproved by Tehran.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
A spokesperson told the BBC: "Any retatrutide available online is unapproved, unverified and simply not worth the risk."
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The black-market companies call themselves “medical spas” and “wellness clinics,” and they offer the unapproved products as a weight-loss hack, Lilly said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
“What is being sold on the black market is not a medicine — it is entirely unverified, unapproved and not worth the risk,” David Hyman, Lilly’s chief medical officer, said in a news release.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Or suppose that we tried the experiment on land instead of water carriage; already the government, not unapproved, carries letters and parcels for us; larger packages may in time follow:—parcels;—even general merchandise?
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin