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Recent Examples of undefinable
Brady: …give me a sense of what that means, because that’s a term that people can immediately read as somewhere in that mid-market that’s kind of undefinable and sometimes hard to grow.
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Fortune Editors, Fortune, 24 July 2024
The answer to that pursuit can be found only in something given little attention in laboratories, classrooms and battlefields — the undefinable, unscientific realm of art.
—Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
There’s one full of hair, a play on the undefinable ick one feels when one spots a stray hair in the sink or on the shower wall.
—Nora Taylor, Curbed, 2 Jan. 2024
Perhaps more than any other American player of the last decade, Eubanks has that undefinable star quality that draws fans in.
—Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
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Fortune Editors, Fortune, 24 July 2024
The answer to that pursuit can be found only in something given little attention in laboratories, classrooms and battlefields — the undefinable, unscientific realm of art.
—Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
There’s one full of hair, a play on the undefinable ick one feels when one spots a stray hair in the sink or on the shower wall.
—Nora Taylor, Curbed, 2 Jan. 2024
Perhaps more than any other American player of the last decade, Eubanks has that undefinable star quality that draws fans in.
—Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undefinable
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Who’s right, and why? Pembroke Pines is mistaken in claiming that Broward County’s regional solid waste authority has a vague and undefined long-range plan.—
Pamella Pema Reid,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2025
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First, the election of a U.S. president who seems agnostic toward technology but may be agnostic one minute and then doctrinaire another — doctrinaire to a new, undefined, capricious ideology.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
2 Feb. 2025
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But Venture Global refused, citing the indeterminate commissioning process.—
Christopher Helman,
Forbes,
27 Jan. 2025
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Year: 2001 Runtime: 2h 58m Director: Peter Jackson The Oscar-winning franchise by Peter Jackson bounces around the streaming services with alarming regularity, now finding its way to Max for an indeterminate amount of time.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2025
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In Murnau’s film, this is Ellen and Nosferatu’s only night together, and the focus is on the vampire; his hollowed eyes, long claws, and kneeling figure are illuminated, while Ellen is turned away from the camera, her body a lumpy, indistinct shape on the bed.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
22 Jan. 2025
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Unfortunately, the end product’s indistinct mechanics for its cast—Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, Killer Shark, and Deadshot all reduced to interchangeable shooter drones—and stagnant, grind-heavy missions intended to be played on repeat for incrementally better loot resulted in a flop.—
Matt Kamen,
WIRED,
20 Dec. 2024
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However, dissolving the DoE would require congressional approval, which remains uncertain.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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Reporting meant hours of conversation in the car; room for asking the same questions over and over; the gradual diminishment of one’s embarrassment about being ignorant or uncertain; a dilatory attitude of quiet listening and watching; the possibility of misunderstandings resolved.—
Joshua Rothman,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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The woman is asking for an undetermined amount of damages to be decided by a jury, according to court records.—
Kate Linderman,
Kansas City Star,
7 Feb. 2025
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The unknown person became known as Pecan Valley John Doe, who died of undetermined causes.—
Olivia Lloyd,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Feb. 2025
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And to him attention is indistinguishable from will because that ability to focus is the essence of will.—
Sean Illing,
Vox,
1 Feb. 2025
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This is because sexes that are indistinguishable seems to correlate with monogamy, and the Barbary macaques are the opposite of monogamous.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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These were really dramatic, inexplicable, but occasional events.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Feb. 2025
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There are a handful of grand gestures thrown in for good measure, from recurring comic bits (the associate principal has a bad habit of getting nosebleeds at the worst possible moment) to not one but two inexplicable interpretive-dance vignettes.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
5 Feb. 2025
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