How to Use nonspecific in a Sentence

nonspecific

adjective
  • The rash is nonspecific, pale pink, and mostly widespread on the neck and chest.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 6 June 2023
  • The rash is nonspecific, pale pink, and mostly widespread on the neck and chest.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Nike nonspecific about plans to open a new store in North or Northeast Portland.
    — oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The symptoms for glioblastoma are very nonspecific most times, too, with nausea and headaches chief among them.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 July 2022
  • The rash is nonspecific, pink, and prominent on the torso.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
  • For instance, in one of the 41 episodes McNear listened to, a guest made a nonspecific comment about big noses.
    — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2021
  • There was a vague and nonspecific plan floating over your weekend.
    — Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
  • At first, her malaise was nonspecific: intense fatigue, an aching back and a headache that wouldn’t respond to ibuprofen.
    — Katherine Zoepf, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Those who do have nonspecific symptoms such as a fever, a headache, rash, nausea, vomiting, aches and pains in the joints, eyes, muscles or bones.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 11 July 2024
  • Of course, tiredness is a pretty nonspecific symptom (and can even be a sign of low blood sugar, as Dr. Adimoolam points out).
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 6 Nov. 2019
  • ALS often starts in a fairly nonspecific way, with weakness in a person’s hand or foot.
    — Jeffrey D. Rothstein, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Symptoms of lung infection are nonspecific and may include cough, fever, weight loss, shortness of breath and night sweats.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 1 July 2021
  • This relates to the many different types of ILD, as well—the symptoms are usually quite nonspecific.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • There was a vague and nonspecific plan-balloon floating over your weekend.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2020
  • There was a vague and nonspecific plan-balloon floating over your weekend.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2020
  • There was a vague and nonspecific plan-balloon floating over your weekend.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The movie predicted a future full of gender-nonspecific clothes, a recurring theme in many great sci-fi films.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
  • Like so much of the play, the energy of the place is haunting and familiar, even while purposefully nonspecific.
    — Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In 2016 Zendaya created the fashion line, Daya By Zendaya, to bring her cool and chic style to her fans with a collection of gender-nonspecific pieces.
    — Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Though the exact mechanism for these off-target effects of the BCG vaccine isn't clear, it's believed that the vaccine can cause a nonspecific boost of the immune response.
    — Gina Yu, CNN, 9 Apr. 2020
  • In the past few years, researchers have begun to learn how the innate immune cells, which are fairly nonspecific and short-lived, remember old invaders.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Those symptoms are very nonspecific and can be present in any number of other conditions.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 16 Mar. 2021
  • In its place, there is only nonspecific pablum about the power of community.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Trump recently threatened nonspecific tariffs against the European Union if the trade bloc didn’t step up U.S. oil and gas imports.
    — Dearbea Walker, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
  • In another episode, for example, a guest made a nonspecific comment about big noses, according to the Ringer, which detailed the episode but did not post its audio.
    — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
  • But because syndromes are nonspecific—fever, body aches and cough, for instance, could indicate either Covid-19 or the flu—lifting the signal out of the background noise is a challenge to solve.
    — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Work with a local business and avoid businesses with vague, nonspecific names.
    — Leah Napoliello, Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Using drugs to selectively disable sets of immune cells in the animals, the researchers pinned the nonspecific protection to the white blood cells called macrophages.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2020
  • But when Joe Palumbo came down with some nonspecific heel inflammation, the Rangers moved things around and created the more daunting challenge.
    — Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2020
  • This results in an oppression utterly devoid of context, so nonspecific as to be nothing.
    — Caitlin Penzeymoog, Vox, 7 Oct. 2024

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