as in general
relating to the main elements and not to specific details
his criticism of the picture is fairly nonspecific, but he clearly doesn't like it
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Recent Examples of nonspecific
Medical professional societies hold varying, relatively nonspecific opinions on how often people should eat deli meat.
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Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 21 Jan. 2026
Universal Friend adopted the name, uniform, and grooming of a nonspecific gender.
—Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
That’s because symptoms often come and go, overlap with other conditions or are simply too nonspecific to raise immediate concern.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
Detection of urinary leukocyte esterase, a nonspecific enzyme present in white blood cells, is also based upon a diazotization reaction embedded in urinary test strips.
—Neil Gaffin, STAT, 29 Dec. 2025
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Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 21 Jan. 2026
Universal Friend adopted the name, uniform, and grooming of a nonspecific gender.
—Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
That’s because symptoms often come and go, overlap with other conditions or are simply too nonspecific to raise immediate concern.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
Detection of urinary leukocyte esterase, a nonspecific enzyme present in white blood cells, is also based upon a diazotization reaction embedded in urinary test strips.
—Neil Gaffin, STAT, 29 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonspecific
Adjective
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Then last June, the Nuggets snatched Wallace back from Minnesota, hiring him as their new co-general manager alongside his friend Ben Tenzer — another longtime Connelly disciple who’d been a steady hand behind the scenes in Denver’s front office since 2013.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2026
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Jacksonville general manager James Gladstone and coach Liam Coen cut their teeth as part of the Rams organization, learning from GM Les Snead and coach Sean McVay.—
Mark Long,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The 22-year-old was viewed as having a positive tournament across five matches, and United rate his overall data as a good fit for the squad in terms of ground coverage, possession-winning and passing.—
Laurie Whitwell,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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Yet my overall impressions of the exhibition—as a public forum of address, redress, and dialogue in which critical questions of public memory, regional identity, ideologies of nationalism, and the capacious field of site-specific sculpture can, if not should be borne out—are decidedly more mixed.—
Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Key and especially Strong could convey depth and emotion, subtlety, and often weirdness via their small choices and close ups, defining their characters in opposition to the town’s broad-for-the-sake-of-comedy denizens.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2026
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The development reflects a broader Pentagon effort to counter low-cost, high-volume aerial threats.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Nonspecific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonspecific. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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