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Recent Examples of undefinable
The undefinable 2021 science-fiction musical epic Neptune Frost—a project from American multidisciplinary artist and musician Saul Williams and Rwandan filmmaker Anisia Uzeyman—is an example of a film that does not simply rehash past visions of a future.
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Ruby Thélot, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
Advertisement Food The undefinable cooking at Poltergeist will haunt you
Oct. 12, 2023
Button Mash was home to a number of pop-ups throughout the years, including the long-running Starry Kitchen, a 101 List awardee under former L.A. Times Food critic Jonathan Gold.
—Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
Brady: …give me a sense of what that means, because that’s a term that people can immediately read as somewhere in that mid-market that’s kind of undefinable and sometimes hard to grow.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 24 July 2024
England’s precise positions down that side were slightly undefinable, which means the formation question is slightly redundant.
—Michael Cox, The Athletic, 7 July 2024
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Ruby Thélot, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
Advertisement Food The undefinable cooking at Poltergeist will haunt you
Oct. 12, 2023
Button Mash was home to a number of pop-ups throughout the years, including the long-running Starry Kitchen, a 101 List awardee under former L.A. Times Food critic Jonathan Gold.
—Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
Brady: …give me a sense of what that means, because that’s a term that people can immediately read as somewhere in that mid-market that’s kind of undefinable and sometimes hard to grow.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 24 July 2024
England’s precise positions down that side were slightly undefinable, which means the formation question is slightly redundant.
—Michael Cox, The Athletic, 7 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undefinable
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Prosecutors say in court papers that Hoffman was fully aware he was prohibited from funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars in undefined, but did so anyway.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Like other big tech names, Oracle is betting much of its future on the promise that demand for computing capacity will keep going up as generative AI ushers in some kind of as-yet-undefined revolution.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
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Before the nineteen-eighties, judges around the country often used what was known as indeterminate sentencing.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
9 Sep. 2025
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Vince, who co-founded the Black Rabbit with his brother years ago, has been hiding out in Reno for an indeterminate period, for unambivalent reasons.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
7 Sep. 2025
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Were his character more precisely defined, Battle’s wail of feeling might carry you past the awkwardness of the songwriting, the nagging questions about what’s meant to be translucent or not, but here both character and emotion are indistinct.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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Shrill treble joins the errant bass, making everything sound muddy and indistinct.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 Aug. 2025
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With Madubuike -- whose status for the rest of the year is uncertain -- once again out today, and fellow defensive starters Jones and Van Noy possibly unavailable, the Ravens are going to need big-time efforts from LB Roquan Smith and the rest of the front seven.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Sep. 2025
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National parks appear to have weathed summer crowds despite staffing cuts, but fall remains uncertain.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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Currently, there is no information on the containment of the fire and the cause of it remains undetermined.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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What will Queens, Elon merger look like? Much about what the merger looks like is still undetermined, Book and Cureton told The Charlotte Observer.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Sep. 2025
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At some point, though, meaning that is sufficiently cryptic becomes indistinguishable from no meaning at all.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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There are, however, key technical challenges such as generating on-demand, indistinguishable single photons with high efficiency, and the probabilistic nature of photonic gates (the electronic elements in a computer performing logic operations).—
Gil Press,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The Giants tanked immediately after acquiring a high-profile superstar with a nine-figure contract, which was inexplicable, unexpected and ominous.—
Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Adonai Mitchell committed an inexplicable turnover early in the second half in their loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday evening.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Undefinable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undefinable. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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