as in chaotic
having no definite or recognizable form
writes unstructured compositions that some people might not even regard as poems
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Recent Examples of unstructured
Rest and unstructured downtime, already scarce commodities in a young family, become scarcer.
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Zachary Przystup, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
The park, backyard, beach, or other safe outdoor areas are great for implementing unstructured play.
—Alex Vance, Parents, 21 Jan. 2025
This momentum is driven by Hybrid Cloud’s comprehensive portfolio, which provides unified data storage, storage management, and infrastructure solutions for data center modernization, supporting both structured and unstructured data, and encompassing software, hardware, support, and services.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Must-have item: Another hallmark of the ’80s: the unstructured double-breasted jacket will be an essential.
—Luisa Zargani, WWD, 21 Jan. 2025
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Zachary Przystup, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
The park, backyard, beach, or other safe outdoor areas are great for implementing unstructured play.
—Alex Vance, Parents, 21 Jan. 2025
This momentum is driven by Hybrid Cloud’s comprehensive portfolio, which provides unified data storage, storage management, and infrastructure solutions for data center modernization, supporting both structured and unstructured data, and encompassing software, hardware, support, and services.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Must-have item: Another hallmark of the ’80s: the unstructured double-breasted jacket will be an essential.
—Luisa Zargani, WWD, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unstructured
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While the transfer was orderly – in contrast to chaotic scenes surrounding the release of Israeli and Thai hostages in Gaza last week – the three appeared thin and pale when they were led onto a makeshift stage.—
Sophie Tanno and Mick Krever,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
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The week’s biggest stories A month after L.A. firestorms, essential questions still haunt Southern California The region is still grappling with basic questions about what caused the blazes, why evacuations were so chaotic and whether officials were prepared.—
Kevinisha Walker,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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Other boundaries seem more amorphous to begin with, like the borders between countries and things like that.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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The global South is an amorphous and much-debated category, encompassing a very broad range of countries.—
JORGE G. CASTAÑEDA,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Feb. 2025
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Some compress you like a sausage casing, others sag into shapeless blobs after one wash, and the worst?—
Boutayna Chokrane,
WIRED,
16 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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That doubtlessly makes Skeleton Crew feel more formless than would be acceptable if the series had been trimmed down to a movie.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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In his sparse notebooks, his childish, unformed handwriting was endearing to me.—
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
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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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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
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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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“Unstructured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unstructured. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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