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as in distorted
badly or imperfectly formed
a shapeless old hat
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as in amorphous
having no definite or recognizable form
right now this clay is just a shapeless lump, but wait until I'm done sculpting it
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Recent Examples of shapeless
The domestic security net is as strong yet as delicate as a spider web, as omnipresent yet as shapeless as water.
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Youwei, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015
Now, in the diffuse and shapeless post-vaccine Biden era, both antihero shows and sweet shows seem to have run out of steam.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 16 June 2024
Here is the elephant so far: Thirteen billion years ago, in a universe that was then less than a billion years old, the Milky Way was born as a shapeless cloud of gas and dust, forming metal-poor stars and rotating incoherently so that its stars' orbits were also haphazard.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
The real problem is the script (by Costner and Jon Baird), which is shapeless.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
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Youwei, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015
Now, in the diffuse and shapeless post-vaccine Biden era, both antihero shows and sweet shows seem to have run out of steam.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 16 June 2024
Here is the elephant so far: Thirteen billion years ago, in a universe that was then less than a billion years old, the Milky Way was born as a shapeless cloud of gas and dust, forming metal-poor stars and rotating incoherently so that its stars' orbits were also haphazard.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
The real problem is the script (by Costner and Jon Baird), which is shapeless.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
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Researchers said the negative impact of this phenomenon can lead to a distorted view of what's normal.Matthew Dolan, Detroit Free Press, 4 Nov. 2024
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Hassan’s video came as a response to the distorted depiction of the neighbourhood in the 2024 Netflix series, Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar by the Indian filmmaker, Sanjay Leela Bhansali.Sonya Rehman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Announced tonight to open in April 2026, the glass-and-concrete masterpiece is designed amorphous and horizontal—like Los Angeles itself—to foster LACMA director Michael Govan’s vision of a democratic curation of artworks, mixing various eras and geographies without wings and hierarchies.Mark Guiducci, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2024
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Still, the figures’ amorphous outlines suggest that the nature of the relationship may be more obscure.The Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews.com, 19 Sep. 2024
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Gila Monster The gila monster does look, indeed, monstrous.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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The Hangman was the illusion of a monster, created by a monster to absorb the fallout of his monstrous deeds.Andy Andersen, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2024
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There is clearly some strife between Ben and Louise, unresolved tension that is often exacerbated by Ben’s unemployment, along with his tendency to be a formless wet blanket.Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
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Read: When growing up happens in a single conversation That loose sensibility does yield a film that can feel somewhat formless, playing like an eclectic album of snapshots from Chris’s life rather than a cohesive whole.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2024
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This condition happens when the aortic valve is misshapen, having two leaflets instead of three.Kelly Burch Published, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024
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Two of its links are artfully misshapen, as if rebelling against being a conventional cable.Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2024
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The chaotic summer of George Floyd protests, violent crime, and COVID-19 lockdowns are increasingly associated with the Left, even if Trump was president at the time.W. James Antle III, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Nov. 2024
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Having studied the chaotic aftermath of the 2020 election, both were now eying plans to disrupt each of the procedural steps between Election Day and the Inauguration, such as the December 11th deadline for each state to ascertain a winner, and the December 17th meeting of each state’s electors.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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Here, those words are embroidered across the front of an unstructured, six-panel canvas ball cap in a typeface design created by Elisa Wong to brand the L.A. Times’ plants coverage.Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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But the unstructured and informal nature of tips also creates problems with fairness among workers.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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One is weather, with an as-yet unformed hurricane, which will be named Helene, likely to graze Florida's space coast later this week.Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2024
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Then, as now, the old international system was unraveling while a new world order remained unformed.Judd Devermont, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2024
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“Shapeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shapeless. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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