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as in amorphous
having no definite or recognizable form
what was once an unformed lump of clay is now an attractive, useful bowl
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as in inexperienced
lacking in adult experience or maturity
under his care and tutelage, young men, unformed in mind and body, became battle-worthy soldiers
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Recent Examples of unformed
Public standards have been demolished, and that deprivation has permeated the unformed morality of the young generation.
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Armond White, National Review, 30 Aug. 2023
What words in the yet unformed Occident May come refined with the accents that are ours?
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
Radcliffe’s characters are on the whole more timid, conflicted, insecure, unformed; Viswanathan’s are smarter, impulsive, adventurous and unconventional and yearn for something more.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
Around the same time Loeb's book was published, French physician Alexis Carrel developed techniques for growing tissues in a culture medium: a kind of unformed living material.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
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Armond White, National Review, 30 Aug. 2023
What words in the yet unformed Occident May come refined with the accents that are ours?
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
Radcliffe’s characters are on the whole more timid, conflicted, insecure, unformed; Viswanathan’s are smarter, impulsive, adventurous and unconventional and yearn for something more.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
Around the same time Loeb's book was published, French physician Alexis Carrel developed techniques for growing tissues in a culture medium: a kind of unformed living material.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unformed
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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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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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Some growers also pinch plants back in September to create an even crown and remove immature stem segments.Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
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Harris 2024 Polls: Harris Leads By 1 Point In Two Latest Surveys Unfortunately, these metrics do not work well for an immature, emerging business.Andrew Binns, Forbes, 21 Oct. 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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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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In a more recent study, researchers gathered data from nearly 7,000 adolescent school children in Ontario, Canada.Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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Seven French families have filed a lawsuit against social media giant TikTok, accusing the platform of exposing their adolescent children to harmful content that led to two of them taking their own lives at 15, their lawyer said Monday.Reuters, CNN, 4 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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And if there was damage on younger roofs, insurers were willing to accept a repair instead of a full replacement, Metcalf said.Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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Ernst, who lives in Middleton, Wis., is the author of 20 historical novels and mysteries for young readers from American Girl, 11 books in the Chloe Ellefson Historic Sites mysteries, and nonfiction history and poetry.Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 10 Nov. 2024
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When a public figure sits across from a podcast host to embark on a purportedly shapeless, stream-of-consciousness chat suffused with crude jokes and senseless tangents, an odd alchemy occurs: the speakers begin to sound like pals bantering at a pre-game, with the listener as a silent confidant.Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
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Their few internal organs drift freely in their shapeless bodies, which lack even a digestive tract.Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2024
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“Unformed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unformed. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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