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Recent Examples of unspecific
But he was forced to call off his tour with Crazy Horse at the halfway point due to an unspecific illness in the band.
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Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2024
Trump’s apparent predilection for strongmen, his skepticism of government institutions, and his attacks on the press are similarly unspecific to Africa.
—John Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2020
The criminal complaint against Anderson initially said blood was found throughout his home: on bedding in a bedroom, a stairwell wall to the basement, and in an unspecific location.
—David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2024
With its sardonic eye, Z remains relevant thanks to its unspecific setting and to a global resurgence of anti-democratic sentiment.
—Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
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Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2024
Trump’s apparent predilection for strongmen, his skepticism of government institutions, and his attacks on the press are similarly unspecific to Africa.
—John Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2020
The criminal complaint against Anderson initially said blood was found throughout his home: on bedding in a bedroom, a stairwell wall to the basement, and in an unspecific location.
—David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2024
With its sardonic eye, Z remains relevant thanks to its unspecific setting and to a global resurgence of anti-democratic sentiment.
—Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspecific
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Comments are vague and unhelpful, ownership falls into the void, and version control is nonexistent.Shani Harmon, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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That may sound vague and grandiose, but a specific kind of expansion has recently been in evidence among many of the best new films.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
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This was later pulled back and made more ambiguous, but still, the setting and enemy mecha do pretty much squarely place it before the game even if the story elements are now less specific.Ollie Barder, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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Whether or not Margo was actually having an affair with her teenage neighbor is intended to be ambiguous, according to Feldman.TIME, TIME, 13 Dec. 2024
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The band has been on an indefinite hiatus since 2016.Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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One Direction formed on TV show The X Factor in 2010, and released five studio albums before the band went on an indefinite hiatus in 2016 to pursue solo projects.Thomas Smith, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2024
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Douglas argued that the U.S. Constitution allows for several inexplicit rights, all of which flow from other protections explicitly stated in the document.Alexandra M. Lord, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2022
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Its particular target at that particular church on that particular morning remains the gesture’s one inexplicit feature.Washington Post, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2021
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The evidence for the pill’s association with depression is somewhat more equivocal.Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2024
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His contribution to the Wende exhibition stands out as a sweeping portrait of a surveillance state and the paradoxically equivocal picture that arises when hundreds of millions of video cameras are monitoring everything that happens in public.Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Unspecific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspecific. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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