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Recent Examples of amorphous 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 What causes shifts in longer-term rates is much harder to pinpoint because they are set by an amorphous force: the market, with Treasuries at the core. Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025 Searching for the spirit to rebuild Wisps of smoke rising from amorphous debris piles, contractor and community activist Rene Amy stands at the center of his property just two blocks away. Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for amorphous
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Adjective
  • Moreover, the chaotic layoff of federal workers will likely lead to a rise in unemployment and tightening of spending by those losing their jobs.
    Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • This fresh, modern reimagining of Ang Lee’s 1993 classic by Andrew Ahn follows a group of friends who need to get married for convenience—until family arrives, and the plan spirals into extravagant, chaotic mayhem.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This approach enables the integration of multiple AI agents and diverse data sources – from structured database information to unstructured documents on personal devices.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Male Alzheimer’s caregivers group: The Men’s Breakfast Club is an informal and unstructured gathering of male caregivers.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Feb. 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 makes these plants unattractive to deer—prickly or hairy stems or leaves, a pungent scent, or a covering of fuzzy hairs—is a win for your garden, adding charm to your landscape.
    Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Something happened online, but the details are fuzzy because all the context has been flattened into nonexistence.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Courtenay Brown Mar 6, 2025 - Business Trump stares down early economic potholes Buy your local economist a drink: The economic backdrop is more chaotic and uncertain than it's been in years — a result of fast-moving and sometimes vague Trump policy.
    Axios, Axios, 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 16 Mar. 2025.

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