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Recent Examples of unspecific
War has affected my family in many specific and unspecific ways.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
The Angel Group and Spacestation Investments both led the more recent seed round that just closed at an unspecific 7-figure amount.
—Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
The document is unspecific as to how often or how far jail personnel would have to transport ICE’s prisoners.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2025
The remark, though unspecific, was not lost on advocates hoping to bolster the programs.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2025
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
The Angel Group and Spacestation Investments both led the more recent seed round that just closed at an unspecific 7-figure amount.
—Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
The document is unspecific as to how often or how far jail personnel would have to transport ICE’s prisoners.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2025
The remark, though unspecific, was not lost on advocates hoping to bolster the programs.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspecific
Adjective
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Young Rod went off to France by himself, and on a visit to Chartres, standing in the nave of the cathedral, he was overcome by a vague but powerful sense that God was real.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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Some scholars suspect that his race was deliberately kept vague and note that, at the time, even those from other European countries like Italy or Spain would have been discriminated against by Brits.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Çatak’s anti-state message acquires an ambiguous power as the movie wends onward, with an enigmatic final shot that finds Aziz tasting clear-skies freedom but still from behind confines of a sort.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2026
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Wuthering Heights simultaneously puts too much malevolence on Nelly’s shoulders while also making her final decisions sort of nonsensical, even ambiguous.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2026
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At the same time, a large share of the affordable housing that does exist is tied to federal subsidies that weren't designed to be indefinite.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Feb. 2026
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There's no information about the cause of the indefinite closure and there has been no response to email inquiries to Josh Taylor and the restaurant's email address, and a Facebook message to Fixture.—
Hannah Kirby,
jsonline.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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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In the past, following a police massacre, authorities would appear before television cameras to offer equivocal statements about the events and promise investigations into the excessive use of force.—
Evandro Cruz Silva,
The Dial,
10 Feb. 2026
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However, for higher dose, systemic estrogen therapy — which is absorbed into the blood stream — including estrogen pills, Christmas and other menopause experts are more equivocal about removing the black box warning.—
Allison Aubrey,
NPR,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Unspecific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspecific. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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