0 made or done by someone whose name is not known or not made public: --
For reasons of personal safety, the informant wishes to remain anonymous.
He received an anonymous letter threatening to disclose details of his affair if he didn't pay the money.
An attempt to implant an embryo using an egg from an anonymous woman donor was unsuccessful.
Police said an anonymous caller warned that a bomb was about to go off.
The money was donated by an anonymous benefactor.
1 (made or done by someone) with a name that is not known or not made public: --
There should be anonymous reporting systems or a designated committee to handle such information and establish appropriate safeguards against repercussions.
On this account, anonymous living organ donation is clearly an altruistic act.
Finally, we thank an anonymous referee whose detailed comments helped to improve the presentation of the paper.
Finally, thanks are extended to an anonymous referee for careful reading of the paper and helpful comments.
They are all neutral and anonymous places where people do not really meet each other but remain strictly passengers or passers-by.
We thank an anonymous reviewer for helping us to see the result this way.
Moreover, and as an anonymous referee also correctly noted, the use of concrete and abstract adjectives is not well motivated and may even seem spurious.
The author is grateful to an anonymous reviewer for clarification on this point.
