How to Use unbranded in a Sentence

unbranded

adjective
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  • The jars may be unbranded, but the message is clear: Slow down a minute.
    — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Some of the land barons paid their cowboys to brand their neighbors’ unbranded calves, which was more like stealing.
    — Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The plan, which has drawn the ire of ranchers, calls for wildlife agents to shoot down unbranded livestock from helicopters.
    — Fox News, 8 Feb. 2022
  • First, it’s not really meant to be used with unbranded trash bags.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 26 July 2023
  • As time went on, my model was still to buy [unbranded] clothing and put our logo on it.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The move sets the stage for legal challenges over how to handle unbranded livestock and other stray cows as drought deepens in the West.
    — CBS News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The event was unbranded, meaning that Genentech didn’t even know which drugs the participants were on, if any.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 21 Sep. 2022
  • An effort was afoot to rectify that last vestige of the town’s unbranded origin.
    — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 9 Jan. 2022
  • If the animal is unbranded or no one claims it after a five-day notice, it is sold at auction to the highest bidder.
    — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2020
  • This included a 5% levy on pre-packaged and unbranded items such as wheat, rice, maize, makhana (fox nuts), specified flour, meat, and curd.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 19 July 2022
  • Mask of the Phantasm dramatized Bruce Wayne's first night out as an unbranded vigilante: all black, no glam.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Manzano raced in unbranded singlets and resorted to trying to sell t-shirts to make some money.
    — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 28 July 2019
  • Some of the cows, which are being monitored with trail cameras, appear to be tagged or branded, but many are unbranded, Popejoy said.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 June 2022
  • Grieco said gift cards or even a thief’s own credit card are less obvious tools to use to steal from other people’s accounts than plain white, unbranded cards.
    — Linda Trischitta, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The drug maker also plans to make similar cuts for its unbranded insulins.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Some cowboys started their own, smaller herds by putting their own brands on mavericks—calves that had slipped unbranded through the roundups—a practice that was, for a time, legal.
    — Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The pomp of EC Comics was brief—lasting less than a decade—and its legacy, while immense and profound, is also diffuse and, crucially, unbranded.
    — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Last month, the online site, which has 16 brick-and-mortar consignment stores around the U.S., saw orders with gift boxes rise by 73% over the same month last year for unbranded jewelry.
    — Leanne Italie, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Soon after this, Joy’s jewelry, unbranded at the time, was brought on the set to add some sparkle to the final three seasons of Carrie Bradshaw’s Manhattan rendezvous.
    — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2019
  • Watkins said the fact that Pinterest is an unbranded search platform, opens the door to a large volume of possibilities and brands available to pinners.
    — Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • But the difference is that majority of the items in At Home are unbranded, private label, or made specially for them.
    — Tainaya Nash, House Beautiful, 12 June 2019
  • In other words, consumers began their journey with an unbranded search.
    — Scott Severson, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • About 97% of the top searches on Pinterest are unbranded and consist of two or three word queries, so the majority of consumers aren’t typing a brand name into their searches.
    — Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • Temu’s business model is based on selling low-cost unbranded goods to price-sensitive consumers.
    — Tracy Wen Liu, WIRED, 10 July 2023
  • Meanwhile, Apple Pay will be added as an option in PayPal's unbranded checkout flows on merchant platforms.
    — Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Legend has it that the term evolved into the noun maverick, which the dictionary defines as someone who is an independent thinker, a rebel or pushes the boundaries, or an unbranded calf.
    — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The newest plan means that the brewer’s red tents now may not be visible at all around stadiums; unbranded white replacements are being considered.
    — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The agency is also responsible for working with ranchers to keep unbranded, or feral, cattle out of those areas.
    — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The crazy race Shopclues’s unique selling proposition always was unbranded and affordable products for small-town shoppers.
    — Itika Sharma Punit, Quartz India, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The company has resorted to selling cold beverages in paper coffee cups and switched to unbranded paper bags because of a shortage of to-go containers.
    — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2021

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