adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an anonymous call (= in which the caller does not give their name )
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The £10,000 demand was made in an anonymous call to his home.
an anonymous donation (= from someone who does not give their name )
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The charity confirmed it had received an anonymous donation of £100,000.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
all
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The messages were all anonymous , of course.
■ NOUN
author
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Some years after Bovary had been cleared, Pinard was discovered to be the anonymous author of a collection of priapic verses.
benefactor
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A low interest loan from an anonymous benefactor allowed the concrete floor to go in.
call
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The anonymous call had offered up two names for the Jabelman murder: Iain MacPherson and Tommy somebody.
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This was supplemented by evidence of anonymous calls by neighbours alleging violence in the family home.
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How many other officers are under investigation from anonymous calls to the hotlines?
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The demand was made in an anonymous call to his farmhouse home near Cloughmills, Co Antrim.
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The Border Patrol received an anonymous call one night about drug activity in the area.
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One of the neighbours was sure to have made an anonymous call to the police, reporting the gunshot.
caller
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It was important to me not to be silenced by the fear the anonymous caller invoked.
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Now she was trying to scare Liz away for whatever warped reason an anonymous caller might have.
donor
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Some require anonymous donors who perceive their role as similar to that of blood donors.
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An anonymous donor had given 20 gallons of cooking oil, desperately needed in the stricken country.
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The blood transfusion brought colour to my face and I am deeply indebted to some anonymous donor .
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The Free Presbyterians' fines were paid by an anonymous donor .
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Another anonymous donor regularly left a sugar bag full of food on the Burrows' front verandah.
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It is abysmal that a gossip writer should use spiky chit-chat from anonymous donors to make money and notoriety for herself.
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The anonymous donor , a needlewoman herself, hired it out to film studios in the 1940s.
letter
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Probably a group of students who amuse themselves by writing anonymous letters to the papers.
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That's the best cure for people who write anonymous letters .
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An anonymous letter , and, when that didn't work, Jem and Eric doing her flat over.
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She had an anonymous letter last night, and tried to burn it before I could see it.
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We do not publish anonymous letters , although we may withhold a writer's identify if it is justified.
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They had found the man who had written the anonymous letter .
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Starting in the summer of 1989, several gendarmes publicized their grievances in anonymous letters to the press.
phone
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And there was also the matter of the anonymous phone call, pointing the finger squarely at Amanda.
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He was too eager to get back to his roll to ask how Zen had found out about the anonymous phone call.
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Twenty-four hours later you make an anonymous phone call.
source
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Smith and Lady Colin say they both received a copy of the letter in the post from an anonymous source .
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Further, he had agreed never to quote the man, even as an anonymous source .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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$50,000 has been given to the charity by an anonymous donor from Utah.
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an anonymous hotel room
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I received anonymous phone calls warning me not to go to the police about what I'd seen.
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One source, who wished to remain anonymous , said that he had seen the woman go into his room.
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The college received an anonymous $5 million gift.
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The paper cited two anonymous sources.
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The writer of the poem is anonymous .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although they are anonymous subjects of the camera, their singularity is often stressed and their individual gestures carefully recorded.
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Both anonymous respondents claimed that both events had had no impact whatsoever on their recruiting.
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Further, he had agreed never to quote the man, even as an anonymous source.
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Given the possibility of an anonymous bidder, these things may remain a mystery.
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King James replied to the Pope in an anonymous book which, in turn, was answered by Cardinal Bellarmine.
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The Border Patrol received an anonymous call one night about drug activity in the area.