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To tackle unmeasured confounding, a sensitivity analysis is often conducted to investigate how robust a causal conclusion is to the strength of unmeasured confounding. For matched observational studies, Rosenbaum proposed a sensitivity analysis framework that uses the randomization of treatment assignments as the \u2018reasoned basis\u2019 and imposes no model assumptions on the potential outcomes, as well as their dependence on the observed and unobserved confounding factors. However, this otherwise appealing framework requires exact matching to guarantee its validity, which is hard to achieve in practice. In this paper we provide an alternative inferential framework that shares the same procedure as Rosenbaum\u2019s approach, but relies on a different justification. 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