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Recent Examples of amorphous In each chapter, Mio and Zoe explore one of their own stories in isolation before hopping to the next — or worse — stopping down entirely for exposition dumps with Rader in an amorphous virtual space. Kyle Wilson, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025 Shelter inflation, which is an amorphous and lagging measure of the average cost of housing in the US, rose to 4.4% year-over-year in January, outpacing overall inflation of 3%. Alicia Wallace and Matt Stiles, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025 An amorphous flower shape hung from her septum, and her hands were covered in shiny black gloves and a silver ring as big as a small saucer. Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2025 Having a potential, amorphous bill looming can be scary, especially if money is tight. Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for amorphous
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Adjective
  • Meanwhile, the White House’s on-again, off-again approach to tariffs with our major trading partners is so chaotic, it can barely be called a policy.
    MoneyShow, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The result is a topsy-turvy movie that is also spiritually profound in ways that the Marvel and DC franchises don’t dare but that became abstruse and chaotic in Snyder’s many Rebel Moon iterations.
    Armond White, National Review, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Perhaps most importantly, AI excels at handling the unstructured data—emails, documents, images and chat logs—that make up 80% of enterprise data.
    Asaf Kochan, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Male Alzheimer’s caregivers group: The Men’s Breakfast Club is an informal and unstructured gathering of male caregivers.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Some compress you like a sausage casing, others sag into shapeless blobs after one wash, and the worst?
    Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Unlike spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, with their distinct structures of winding spiral arms, elliptical galaxies are rather shapeless.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Elaborating on the different forms of Shiva worshipped across cultures, Tripathi says, the concept of divine being is difficult to understand in its nirguna (formless) form.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The Right was formless, fractured, a collection of irritable mental gestures -- and then William F. Buckley Jr. founded this journal, bringing the various respectable strands of conservatism together and discarding the others.
    Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • In his sparse notebooks, his childish, unformed handwriting was endearing to me.
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
  • As chief of patrol, the No. 2 unformed official, Chell has feuded wildly and needlessly with the press and politicians while leading a secretive and highly aggressive quality of life unit.
    Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • What Freedman pointed out — and where this case is admittedly fuzzy — is that just because Lively felt harassed does not mean she was legally harassed.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Top Chef: Colorado is a standout of the franchise's back half, a warm and fuzzy season with memorable chefs — RIP Fatima — that's blissfully straightforward.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Not after the 49ers asked him to take a pay cut last year and after general manager John Lynch’s vague response when asked recently about the fullback’s future.
    Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Having lost an extra 30 minutes in the meeting above, another manager speeds through a document review, providing only vague feedback to her direct report.
    Shani Harmon, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • There is a wealth of knowledge and experience here to sift through and, at times, the film’s editing leaves these individual’s offerings unshaped or unclear.
    Sarah-Tai Black, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
  • It’s by far the album’s worst song, and the one that feels most unshaped by Max Martin’s touch.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2021

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“Amorphous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amorphous. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.

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