nameless

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The shop which found it wished to remain nameless, but gallery director Tommy Zyw said it was the largest single sale in the charity's history and would help it support medical research.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

An editor who shall remain nameless told me today that no one seemed to care about the latest consumer price index print—that it was stale data in the wake of rising oil prices.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

Rilke described these memories as those having “turned to blood within us, to glance and gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

One former Smithsonian curator, who remains a federal employee and asked to be kept nameless out of concern for losing their job, told me the reality is that curators must act more strategically.

From Slate • Aug. 22, 2025

I was horribly embarrassed, feeling that my life had somehow been full of nameless wrong, an unatonable guilt.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright