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Recent Examples of shapeless Their few internal organs drift freely in their shapeless bodies, which lack even a digestive tract. Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2024 With villains ranging from all-powerful shapeless beings to merry pranksters of the mind, this is a show that dips its toe in the superhero pool right before delivering the world’s most graceful and enigmatic cannonball. Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 25 July 2024 On every hand are old men and women, seamed, withered, shapeless, big-jointed from a lifetime of hard labor with corn and pigs. Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024 The domestic security net is as strong yet as delicate as a spider web, as omnipresent yet as shapeless as water. Youwei, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015 See All Example Sentences for shapeless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shapeless
Adjective
  • Many of the photos are rarely seen, including some of distorted celebrity photos that were commissioned by major magazines.
    Matt Shaw, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Originally appearing as a bonus track on last year’s greatest-hits compilation, Science Fiction, the song is reimagined here into a glitchy, distorted club cut.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The city is both geographically and spiritually amorphous.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2025
  • This is not one potentially wealthy amorphous group with gray hair.
    Tim Wragg, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Do Democrats really believe the American people aren’t aware of massive government inefficiencies and the monstrous waste of taxpayer money?
    Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Present value means before any deferments are made like the baseball world has seen with Shohei Ohtani's monstrous deal.
    Drew VonScio, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 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
  • Washing bras too often can affect the elastic and wires, leading to a misshapen bra.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2025
  • When people began filming their reactions, many complained about the stale taste and misshapen appearance of the cookies.
    Simone Melvin, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
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
  • 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
  • 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

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“Shapeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shapeless. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.

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