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anonymous as in: an anonymous author
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The police arrested her after an anonymous tip told them where to find the stolen diamonds.anonymous = by someone whose name is not known
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Everyone wonders who has been sending her anonymous love letters.anonymous = by someone who did not reveal their name
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Everyone wonders who made the anonymous donation.anonymous = by someone whose name is not known
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The author remained anonymous.anonymous = unknown
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A millionaire, who wishes to remain anonymous, offered to pay my college tuition. (source)anonymous = of unknown identity
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The Cataclyst had sold to an anonymous bidder for just over a million credits. (source)anonymous = of unknown identity
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"It's been written anonymously," I say, "but with Hilly around, there's still a good chance people will know it was me." (source)anonymously = by an unnamed author so others will not know who wrote it
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They came through twice in ten days, and soon after, the anonymous, prune-faced woman on Munich Street was proven absolutely correct. (source)anonymous = of unknown name
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Mrs. Bradley knew people had a difficult time saying nice things to each other, so she devised a way for us to anonymously say what we felt. (source)anonymously = without revealing who did it
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Westerberg found the station in time to catch the tail end of the Paul Harvey broadcast, and he was forced to agree: The few sketchy details made the anonymous hiker sound distressingly like his friend. (source)anonymous = unknown
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I might send them money anonymously if I earn anything later on. (source)anonymously = without revealing who did it
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Phoebe imagined that every noise was the lunatic sneaking in or the message-leaver creeping up to drop off another anonymous note. (source)anonymous = unsigned (not revealing who wrote it)
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Soon the Laughing Man had amassed the largest personal fortune in the world. Most of it he contributed anonymously to the monks of a local monastery-- (source)anonymously = without revealing who contributed the money
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As much as they need to remain anonymous, they cannot get by entirely alone. (source)anonymous = unknown
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He sent you the Invisibility Cloak anonymously.... That was my dad's, though," said Harry.† (source)anonymously = without revealing who did it
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anonymous as in: an anonymous, uninteresting house
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Mine is the third house on a block of anonymous brick houses.
anonymous = lacking individuality or interesting features
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It is one of the anonymous houses on an uninteresting street.
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Indeed, were it not for one or two seemingly insignificant blunders, he would have walked out of the woods in August 1992 as anonymously as he had walked into them in April. (source)anonymously = unknown and not special to most people
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I could see the magazine on the newsstands, and a lot of anonymous eyes looking at it, (source)anonymous = lacking individuality or interesting features
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Middens of anonymous trash. (source)anonymous = lacking individuality or interesting features
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The dormitories we passed were massive and almost anonymous behind their thick layers of ivy, big, old-looking leaves you would have thought stayed there winter and summer, permanent hanging gardens in New Hampshire. (source)
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The rook knew he would be easy to spot in the capital city, so as he left the encampment, he grabbed a blanket and draped it over his battlements to give himself the appearance of an anonymous pauper. (source)
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I wished I had an opera house. I wished I had a cathedral. I wished I could climb to the top of the Empire State Building like King Kong. Instead, I had only books, books and the anonymous streets of New York with their millions of stupid, clueless people. (source)
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Everything about the restaurant is anonymous and interchangeable. (source)anonymous = lacking distinctiveness, individuality, or interesting features
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This family, on a Saturday morning in October, began, one by one, to stir out of their dreams of affluence and vengeance into the anonymous misery of their storefront. (source)
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When we'd passed the point along Wakeling where we'd started, the street began to curve and twist, the factories and workhouses shrinking down into squat offices and unassuming buildings with blank faces and no signs, like a neighborhood purpose-built to be anonymous. (source)anonymous = lacking individuality or interesting features
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The anonymous poets returned again and again to the same metaphors. (source)
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The McGurk Line pier was in South Brooklyn, in a district of brown anonymous houses. (source)
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I had to be anonymous. (source)anonymous = lacking distinctiveness or interesting features
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