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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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The first phase leaves Hamas armed and operational, doesn’t guarantee disarmament or leadership exile, and Gaza’s post-war governance remains undefined.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
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This year, Wisconsin (2-3) is struggling, while Iowa (3-2) remains undefined.—
Scott Dochterman,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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However, on the page, Laura is trapped there for an indeterminate amount of time, and Carrie is less willing to help her.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Oct. 2025
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These two states correspond to the unfortunate feline’s indeterminate alive-or-dead status in Schrödinger’s original thought experiment.—
Dan Garisto,
Scientific American,
7 Oct. 2025
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Their experiences were dismissed as indistinct from men’s, shaped by patriarchal assumptions about heroism.—
Christopher P. Davey,
The Conversation,
6 Oct. 2025
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But The Morning Show does it so needlessly and so predictably, hitting all the standard tropes of this kind of indistinct othering and then tossing the subplot aside.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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The industry has an uncertain few years ahead, but for now an era of harmony between streamers and networks has broken out.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
12 Oct. 2025
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But three days after Bichette’s post-clinch proclamation, the shortstop’s status for the ALCS remains uncertain.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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At this time, the containment status is unknown and the cause of the fire remains undetermined.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
12 Oct. 2025
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Trump announced on Wednesday that Israel and Hamas had agreed to the first phase of the deal, in which all remaining hostages -- alive and dead -- will be released from Gaza in exchange for an as-yet undetermined number of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
9 Oct. 2025
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Their inhabitants have been forced off their land by a combination of settlers and the Army, which are often indistinguishable from each other.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2025
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Organic and synthetic, indistinguishable.—
Alma Rota,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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Cianfrance doesn’t have to push the humor, which unfolds organically, due to Manchester’s reputation as an exceedingly nice and polite armed robber, an inexplicable blend of traits that happens to be the bullseye of Tatum’s skillset as a performer.—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
11 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement Since then, violent video games consistently have been blamed after mass shootings, as the technology remains an outlet for our collective fears over extraordinary and inexplicable horrors.—
Time,
Time,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Undefinable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undefinable. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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