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Recent Examples of unspecific
Vague, kid-friendly proclamations about giving a little love to change the world were exchanged for lyrics depicting a more mature, albeit still unspecific, approach to romance.
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Stephen Daw, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2024
Initial symptoms are unspecific, including fever, headache, malaise, chills, joint pain, nausea, and vomiting.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2024
But he was forced to call off his tour with Crazy Horse at the halfway point due to an unspecific illness in the band.
—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
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Stephen Daw, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2024
Initial symptoms are unspecific, including fever, headache, malaise, chills, joint pain, nausea, and vomiting.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2024
But he was forced to call off his tour with Crazy Horse at the halfway point due to an unspecific illness in the band.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspecific
Adjective
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Maddox does not make vague threats toward people who run afoul of him.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2025
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The administration has been more vague, however, on programs such as classes that teach Black history.—
Lexi Lonas Cochran,
The Hill,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Religion is the topic most likely to cause offense in India today, though the code is ambiguous on this point too.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2025
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One thing that is not ambiguous is that the spirit is drawing Mia into its world a little at a time.—
Katie Rife,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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There were already 400 UAW members on indefinite furlough in Kokomo even before Monday’s layoffs.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2025
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Malik’s departure ahead of the band’s fifth and final album was the beginning of the end for the boy band, whose remaining members, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson, released Made in the A.M. and then went on indefinite hiatus.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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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Clinton’s signaling worked once again, and on November 14, the Iraqis sent two letters to the UN, the second less equivocal than the first, promising to allow UNSCOM back in.—
Timothy Naftali,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Jan. 2020
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The message is in contrast to the equivocal and worrisome responses from the new US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is a long-time anti-vaccine advocate.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Unspecific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspecific. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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